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2014 Bill Tracking Page:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Last updated: Apr. 8, 2014
at 5:00p
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See the
2013 Utah Government Corruption Report.
See last year's
2013 Bill
Tracking Page.
 "Good" Bills
Description:
Bills that substantively improve
statute.
Disclaimer: "Good Bills"
can be demoted to
"Bad Bills" or "Ugly Bills" at any time, and the change
may not appear on this page until it is too late.
Bill
Briefing
Click to read! |
Brief Description |
Status |
Assessment
Last
Updated
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HB 75 S1 |
Restoration of gun rights.
Exempts individuals who have had certain felonies
expunged from the blight of "restricted persons" who
are prohibited from possessing a "dangerous weapon".
Briefing to come (click
here for bill text). |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 242 |
Freedom
of information. Limits the games
government agencies can play to avoid openness and
accountability via citizen GRAMA requests. |
Unanimously
"held" by
House Monarchess' hand-picked
political subdivisions committee; died in rules
committee |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 318 S1 |
Restoring jury trials for innocent parents.
Affords
jury trial option for parents,
including gun owners, who
face termination of
their parental rights. |
Passed house; Senate Monarch's hand-picked judiciary,
law [sic] enforcement, and
criminal justice committee
returned it to rules committee, where it died |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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 "Bad" Bills
Description: Bills that make statute worse.
Observations: "Bad Bills" should be killed; not amended. Bill
sponsors should be required to go back to the drawing board,
obtain more input from gun owners, and complete the due
diligence they failed to complete before promoting the bill.
Threat Briefing
Click to read! |
Brief Description |
Status |
Last
Updated
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HB 134 S3 |
Gun Safe Registration and Anti-Gun Propaganda
Distribution.
Utilizes the government's concealed carry "permit" extortion process to offer
perverse financial incentives to businesses that sell gun
safes. It would also appropriate tax monies to
notoriously anti-gun bureaucracies for dubious "gun safety"
programs, and create a de facto gun safe registration program
for those who foolishly
participate. |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 202 |
Mental health backdoor gun control. Reinforces Obama regime's effort to strip firearms
rights from persons ACCUSED of mental
illness.
Threat briefing to come (click here for bill text). |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 303 S1 |
Major Threat!
Arrest innocent vehicle drivers.
Grants new police power to profile, molest,
arrest, and prosecute innocent drivers if they are
suspected of "being impaired to the slightest
degree". Would dramatically expand the power of
police to forcibly invade the persons and vehicles of gun
owners to perform unjustified seizures and
arrests. |
Returned to
House Monarchess' hand-picked rules committee,
where it died |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 216 |
Violating your house and senate statutators.
Requires bills to be approved by the House and Senate
Monarchs' hand-picked standing committees before they
can be enacted into statute.
Threat briefing to come (click here for bill text). |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 276 |
Major Threat!
Violence against open carry gun owners.
Targets unholstered open carry gun owners
under "disorderly conduct", as well as other gun
owners. |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HR 1 |
Another
power grab by the Monarchess via her hand-picked
committees.
Threat briefing to come (click here for bill text). |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SB 35 |
Gun control by bureaucrats. Reauthorizes
numerous "administrative rules" created by unelected
bureaucrats that have the same effect as gun control
statutes. |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SB 126 |
Denying innocent parents right to petition
courts. Parents, including gun owners, who have had their children stolen without
a jury trial would be denied the right to even
PETITION a court for restoration of their rights if
the state has made other "permanent guardianship"
arrangements.
Threat briefing may come (click here for bill text). |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SB 220 |
Disorderly Mess Against Gun Owners.
This bill makes a bigger mess of "disorderly conduct"
statutes and puts gun owners at increased risk.
Threat briefing to come (click
here for bill text). |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SR 1 |
Violating your senate statutators.
Expands Niederhauser's domination of the entire
process, by de facto eliminating one of the only
mechanisms for senate statutators to act
independently. |
Unanimously passed senate |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SJR 3 |
Increasing Executive Monarch's power.
Executive Monarch ("governor") would appoint
(rather than you elect) Utah's attorney general for a 6-year
(rather than 4-year) term.
Threat briefing to come (click here for bill text). |
Unanimously passed Senate Monarch's hand-picked
committee; passed 2nd floor
vote; sent back to rules where it died |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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 "Ugly" Bills
Description: Bills
that are poorly-written, harmful distractions.
Did anyone ever take you on a
snipe hunt as a child, chasing after an imaginary and
ever-elusive target you could never find? It is a timeless and
effective tactic of professional manipulators to
send well-intentioned citizens on snipe hunts as a diversion.
The justifiable emotion and energy of
the citizen regarding an issue of importance is captured and
applied to a task that can't or won't be accomplished — or is
useless in its effect. The status quo is thereby preserved
and injustice is advanced.
Bill Briefing
Click to read! |
Brief Description |
Status |
Last
Updated
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HB 70 S1 |
Pretending to restrict forcible entry abuses.
Deals with police forcible entry, but leaves gaping
exception and provides no penalty for government
violators. Ugly briefing
may come (click here
for bill text). |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 91 S1 |
Limit a couple secret government meetings, and
ignore the big secret meetings. Original
version of this bill created a new definition of "public committee" and
requires it to comply with the existing "Open and
Public Meetings Act".
This substitute is too watered down. Ugly briefing may come (click here
for bill text). |
Failed house final floor vote; dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 373 |
Toothlessly "require" state agents to respond
to federal firearm transfer requests. Statute
enforcement agent (SEAs) would be tasked to fill out
paperwork requested for firearm and other transfers as
regulated by the National Firearms Act within 15
calendar days. Unfortunately, no penalty is provided
if SEAs refuse to comply. Ugly briefing may come
(click
here for bill text). |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HJR 4 |
Recall option
for some officials, but not others. Recall provisions for
the executive branch, but not the statutory (i.e.
"legislative") branch. Ugly briefing may come
(click here
for bill text). |
Sent back to house rules committee from 3rd reading,
where it died |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SB 167 S2 |
Spy drones are sort-of-bad.
Sets some very nebulous criteria for when spy drones can be utilized
without providing any penalty for government violators.
Ugly briefing may come (click here
for bill text). |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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Under Review
Disclaimer:
May be a "Bad Bill" or "Ugly Bill", but more time
is required to
review it.
Bill
Click to
read actual text!
(briefing not yet complete)
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Brief Description |
Status |
Last
Updated
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HB 63 |
Recall election
provisions |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 161 |
Purportedly prohibits cooperation between a federal
agency that collects electronic data and any political
subdivisions of the state |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 225 |
Sheriff assigned as primary statute enforcement agent
for unincorporated areas |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 235 |
Election reporting requirement changes |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 268 S1 |
Original version appeared to exempt
archery equipment from the statutory definition of a
"dangerous weapon". This version makes
many changes. |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 290 |
Changes presumption of innocence statute |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 295 |
Exemptions to weapons statutes for those doing official
duties and non-residents |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 296 |
Bureaucratic requalification arrangments for statute
enforcement agents and judges |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 301 |
Exempts active duty soldiers from Utah concealed
firearm permit reciprocity requirement if stationed
out of state |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 322 |
Deals with alternative parking for individuals who
transport, possess, receive, transfer, or store a
firearm in his/her vehicle |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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HB 397 |
Deals with surveys of children in government schools |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HB 432 |
Grants bureaucrats power to allow certain
dispensations for firing tracer or incendiary rounds
on state lands |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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HR 2 |
Changes to house voting procedures, including allowing
those present in the chambers to abstain |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SB 46
S2 |
Limit bureaucratic warrants. Original
increased standard of issuing "administrative
subpoenas" [i.e. bureaucratic warrants without signoff
from a court dictator/judge] from "reasonable
suspicion" to "probable cause" with the added caveat
of "exigent circumstances". This bill appears to
require a warrant for electronic searches, without
increasing the evidentiary standard.
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Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SB 97 |
Lobbyist disclosure
amendments |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SB 113 |
Public meeting
amendments |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SB 146 |
Various lobbyist statutory amendments |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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SB 256 |
Property confiscation amendments |
Passed house and senate and
signed by Executive Monarch |
4/8 at 5:00p |
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SB 267 S1 |
Governmental entity may not challenge the timeliness
of a notice of claim filed within a specified time if
the claimant had in good faith previously filed it
with another agency (and if other conditions are met). |
Dead |
3/14 at 12:30a |
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Tracking Instructions: Each bill briefing includes a hyperlinks
to the official bill documents page. From there you can
click on the latest bill version to view the actual
language, or see other crucial information on the bill. The
"Status" feature, for instance, tells you where
the bill is in the statutory process and leads you to actual
floor vote details.
You can sign up to
receive e-notification of changes made to the bill or
bill status. This is a nice feature, though not always as
timely or reliable as it ought to be. Make sure to also be
cognizant of new amended versions of the bill. Keep in mind
that bills can be substituted. Substituted bills replace
the previous bill entirely.
For an overall bill list and tracking page, see
http://le.utah.gov/DynaBill/BillList?session=2014GS
Abbreviations: HB= house bill, HCR= house concurrent
resolution, HJR= house joint resolution, S= substitute
[followed by the number of the substitute], SB= senate bill, SCR=
senate
concurrent resolution, SJR= senate joint resolution.
Contact officials: Find and contact
your
house statuators,
senate statuators, and
executive branch
officials.
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