SB256: Rolling Back Asset Forfeiture Changes
This bill passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. Libertas Institute supports this bill. In December we released a policy analysis...
HB161: Prohibiting Support for the NSA
This bill was referred by the committee to interim study. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. Libertas Institute supports this bill. When the NSA facility was proposed in Utah,...
Why Do We Care About Common Core?
The following is a transcript of the remarks shared by Connor Boyack at this week’s anti-Common Core rally at the Utah Capitol. We care because we support parental stewardship in education — the ultimate local control....
Politicians, or Economic Prognosticators? The Convention Center Bill Provides an Answer
Last year’s convention center subsidy proposal is back, and it passed unanimously out of committee yesterday. Remarks made during the discussion make clear our point, once again, that legislators should not be economic...
HB356: Centrally Planning the Salt Lake City Economy
This bill passed the House 49-23 and passed the Senate 17-11. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Last year, the Senate narrowly supported...
How Utah Conservatives Are Helping Progressives Grow Big Government
“Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic.”—Frederic Bastiat, The Law This week during debate over HB 96 (to fund preschool...