Community Engagement

This bill enacts the First Home Investment Zone Act which would provide affordable, owner-occupied housing. It also takes the tax increment from schools.

Creates the Utah Homes Investment Program and directs the state treasurer on terms for depositing funds into the program.

This bill modifies the Protection of Personal Information Act. It creates a standard for how the personal information of a minor is maintained and/or destroyed.

This bill addresses funding issues related to housing affordability. It authorizes agencies to use funding to pay for or contribute to the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of income targeted housing including requirements that state funds be spent on certain affordable housing investments. It encourages the Utah Inland Port Authority, the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority, and the School Institutional Trust Lands Administration to, if appropriate, utilize land use authority to increase the supply of housing in the state.
 

Creates the Transit Access Pass for Students pilot grant program. This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2025: to State Board of Education - State Board and Administrative Operations - Transit
Access Pass for Students as a one-time appropriation: from the Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account, One-time, $7,500,000. 

The amendment makes slight changes to who serves on the Homelessness Councils. It requires homelessness councils to establish goals to achieve functional zero level of homelessness (fewer or the same number of clients entering homelessness as are leaving homelessness). Finally, it lays out how/what data will be collected.

This Bill:

• Modifies the formula used by the Office of Homeless Services (office) to disburse funds from the Homeless Shelter Cities Mitigation Restricted Account (account) to municipalities to mitigate the impacts of homeless shelters.
• Provides for the State Tax Commission to subtract a certain amount from a local government's annual local contribution to the account based on the availability of homeless shelter beds within the local government's boundaries.
• Requires certain counties to convene a county winter response task force for the purpose of preparing a county winter response plan, formerly known as a county overflow plan.
• Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a code blue alert for certain weather events that may pose a danger to individuals experiencing homelessness.

The Legislature of the State of Utah, the Governor concurring therein, directs that the State Board of Education remind all LEAs of the obligation under statute and to take sufficient measures in ensuring that the Pledge of Allegiance is recited in every Utah classroom at the beginning of every school day.

Exempts from sales and use tax amounts paid or charged for construction materials used to open or expand a child care program

This bill provides for criminal background checks of public library employees. It would require current and prospective employees of the public library in any employment
position that involves significant contact with minors to submit to a criminal background check as a condition of employment;