Better Utah Progress Report

ARE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTED TO PROGRESS?

Lawmakers pass hundreds of bills each year. How many of those bills make Utah a better state for everyone?

The Progress Report is a collection of the most important bills (both good and bad) that were considered during the Legislative Session. We grade lawmakers on how they voted, so you can be in the know on how your representatives are doing up at the Utah Capitol.

Share it with your family, friends, and neighbors, and use it to help you get ready to vote! We all deserve elected officials committed to moving Utah forward and putting people over politics.

2025 Progress Report Bills

Strong Communities

H.B. 88 Housing Policy Amendments
- - Amends the frequency of moderate income housing progress reports from annually to triannually; allows for construction of internal and external accessory dwelling units in residential zones of urban municipalities; and allows for the construction of modular homes in residential zones of urban municipalities
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Housing Affordability
H.B. 90 Zoning Amendments
- - Allows for smaller and more affordable homes by allowing for the construction of detached single family dwellings on lots of at least 6,000 square feet in residential zones of urban municipalities
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Housing Affordability
H.B. 100 Food Security Amendments
- - Provides K-12 students who currently qualify for reduced-price school lunches with free access to lunch; prohibits schools from publicly identifying or stigmatizing students who cannot afford meals by requiring communications regarding a student’s meal debt to be directed only to the student’s parent; and encourages schools to reduce food waste
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Education
H.B. 132 Firearm Storage Amendments
- - Creates a Class C misdemeanor for when an individual fails to lawfully store the individual’s firearm and the firearm is then accessed by a minor in an unlawful manner
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Gun Violence Prevention
H.B. 133 Dangerous Weapon Amendments
- - In addition to a number of other changes and restructuring of firearm laws, this bill allows 18-20 year olds to openly carry loaded firearms in private vehicles, public streets, and any other place not prohibited by law.
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Gun Violence Prevention
H.B. 182 Rental Amendments
- - Requires rental owners to provide 60 days notice of rent increases to tenants
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Tenant Rights
H.B. 233 School Curriculum Amendments
- - Prohibits school districts and charter schools from allowing organizations that perform “elective” abortions to provide health-related instruction or materials in public schools
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Education
H.B. 256 Municipal and County Zoning Amendments
- - Clarifies that short-term rental listing posts on websites may be used as evidence that they are violating short-term rental regulations, as long as the municipality or county has additional supporting information or evidence; allows counties and municipalities to provide notice to short-term rental websites indicating that a listing violates business licensing or zoning requirements, require owner of short-term rentals to obtain a business license or other permit to operate a short-term rental, and provide short-term listings to county auditors as evidence that short-term rental owner may be subject to transient room tax
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Housing Affordability
H.B. 267 Public Sector Labor Union Amendments
- - Prohibits public employers from recognizing public employee labor unions as bargaining agents and from entering into collective bargaining contracts with such unions
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Labor
H.B. 286 Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund Amendments
- - Requires 25% of the net sales tax profits on alcohol to be transferred annually to the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund to benefit individuals purchasing affordable single-family, owner-occupied homes and the purchasing, developing, or rehabilitating of multi-family affordable housing
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Housing Affordability
H.B. 381 Civics Education Amendments
- - As part of the social studies graduation requirement, requires at least one unit in American constitutional government and citizenship, standards of which will be established by the State Board of Education but must include American founding principles, the text of the United States Constitution, the development of the United States Constitution, and the practice of self-governance at the state and local level
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Education
H.B. 387 Firearm Attachment Amendments
- - Creates criminal offenses for the unlawful possession, manufacture, distribution or sale of machinegun firearm attachments
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Gun Violence Prevention
H.B. 505 Homeless Services Revisions
- - Among other things, creates a Class C misdemeanor for the offense of unsanctioned camping on state property
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Homelessness
S.B. 78 Homeless Individuals Protection Amendments
- - Creates the position of Homeless Services Provider Ombudsman within the Office of Homeless Services to investigate complaints made against service providers by or on behalf of individuals experiencing homelessness and to make recommendations on policies or procedures that may need to be addressed, modified, or canceled
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Homelessness
S.B. 125 Eviction Amendments
- - Lowers the amount of damages a jury or court may award in a proceeding involving a tenant and an owner from treble damages to actual damages and allows the court to exercise discretion when awarding such damages; requires a new owner of a multifamily unit building to provide notice of the change in ownership and any rent increase of 10% or greater than the monthly rent, and prohibits a new owner from imposing a rent increase for the first 90 days; and if a renter receives such a notice, allows the renter to terminate the rental agreement with 60 days notice
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Tenant Rights
S.B. 130 Firearm and Firearm Accessory Modifications
- - Prohibits “restricted persons” from possessing ammunition, in addition to firearms; makes it a crime to possess firearms on which identifying marks are altered or removed; makes it a crime to possess firearms without identifying marks, so-called “ghost guns;” requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification to inform local law enforcement when a “prohibited person” attempts to purchase a firearm from a dealer; beginning January 1, 2027, creates a crime to for an adult to possess a machine gun firearm attachment; creates a waiting period of five days between the purchase and delivery of a firearm from a dealer to the purchaser; beginning January 1, 2027, creates a crime for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, receive, or possess a gas-operated semiautomatic firearm, and for those in possession before that date, creates a registry; requires firearm dealers to post written notice of potential liability for the negligent storage of a firearm; beginning on January 1, 2027, creates a crime for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, receive, or possess large-capacity ammunition feeding devices; and beginning on January 1, 2027, expands the criminal offense of altering a serial number on a pistol or revolver to include all firearms and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Gun Violence Prevention
S.B. 151 Income Tax Contributions Amendments
- - Creates the “Statewide Hunger Relief Fund” and allows for individuals to designate on their income tax return a contribution to that Fund which will be disbursed to the Utah Food Bank at least once a year
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Economic Justice
S.B. 173 School Meal Amendments
- - Creates the Universal Free School Meals Program to provide free meals to students enrolled in public schools
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Education
S.B. 182 Homeless Services Modifications
- - Between June 1 and September 30, requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a “code red alert” for counties experiencing a weather event of “HeatRisk of 3 – Major” or greater, allowing homeless shelters to expand their capacity; indoor facilities to be used as cooling centers; provide services by homeless shelters, state and local government entities, and homeless service providers; and prohibit the seizing of personal items used for survival in hot weather when enforcing camping prohibitions
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Homelessness
S.B. 189 Child Care Services Amendments
- - Requires the state to identify obsolete state-owned buidings that are suitable to be retrofitted as expanded child care opportunity facilities and partner with employer sponsors to provide such facilities
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Child Care
S.B. 250 Community Development Modifications
- - Authorizes the Utah Inland Port Authority to provide general differential revenue from a project area to a non-profit housing fund to assist low-income individuals and families to achieve home ownership within a fifteen mile radius of that project area; and authorizes a community reinvestment agency to pay all or any portion of the agency’s housing allocation to a non-profit housing fund for use in assisting individuals or families within the community to achieve or retain homeownership
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Housing Affordability

Equal Rights

H.B. 42 English Learner Amendments
- - Provides emergency funding to schools experiencing a signifiance increase in students learning English over the previous three years
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Immigrant Rights
H.B. 49 Juror Eligibility Amendments
- - Restores the rights of individuals who have been convicted of a felony in state or federal court to serve on a jury so long as their conviction was expunged or reduced to a misdemeanor, or at least ten years have passed after the individual’s conviction or incarceration, whichever is later
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Criminal Justice Reform
H.B. 77 Flag Display Amendments
- - Prohibits government entities and teachers in school classrooms from displaying flags, except the following exempted flags: the US flag; the Utah state flag; the flag of another country, state, or political subdivision of another country or state; a flag that represents a city, municipality, county, or political sudivision of Utah; a flag that represents a branch, unit, or division of the United States military; the POW/MIA flag; a flag that represents an Indian tribe; a college or university flag; historical U.S. or Utah flags; official public school flags; an Olympics or Paralympics flag; or a flag of an organization authorized to use a public school facility
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
H.B. 167 Offender Reintegration Amendments
- - Requires local mental health authorities, to the extent feasible, to coordinate with the Department of Corrections to ensure the continuity of mental health services fo county residents on probation or parole; requires criminal justice coordinating councils to identify strategies for connecting county residents who are on probation, parole, or leaving jail or prison, with county-based housing, employment, mental health services, substance use treatment, and related resources; adds an expunged conviction and arrest that occurred as a juvenile to the circumstances when a public employer may not exclude an applicant from an initial interview; reduces the amount of time following an individual’s incarceration for purposes of defining unprofessional conduct in certain circumstances and expands the exceptions under which a conviction would not qualify; and creates an account to be used for successful reintegration of offenders and former offenders into the general public
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Criminal Justice Reform
H.B. 214 Employer Verification Amendments
- - Would require all employers with five or more employees to verify their workforce using E-Verify, an increase from the current requirement of 150 employees
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Immigrant Rights
H.B. 226 Criminal Amendments
- - Requires local law enforcement to work closer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants; and increases misdemeanor penalties for some Class A misdemeanors to trigger automatic deportation for both illegal and legal immigrants after their 365-day sentence is over
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Immigrant Rights
H.B. 250 Public Employee Gender-Specific Language Requirements
- - Prevents disciplinary action from being taken against a Utah public school techer for using a name or pronoun other than that requested by the student, so long as done in good faith, or at the request of the student’s parents; limits disciplinary action from being taken against a government employee for using a name or pronoun other than that requested by another employee, so long as done in good faith or because of a sincerely held religious or moral belief
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: LGBTQ Rights
H.B. 252 State Custody Amendments
- - Prohibits the Department of Corrections from initiating gender-affirming care for incarcerated Utahns; denies appropriate housing for trans youth who are incarcerted in juvenile detention facilities and Utahns in secure care facilities
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: LGBTQ Rights
H.B. 269 Privacy Protections in Sex-Designated Areas
- - Requires trans students who live in sex-designated dormitory housing in public colleges and universities to be assigned housing that aligns with their biological sex at birth; allows for gender-neutral housing, which doesn’t currently exist at all colleges and universities, that will be set up by rule through the Utah System of Higher Education
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: LGBTQ Rights
H.B. 284 International Money Transmission Amendments
- - Requires customers requesting an international money transfer to pay a 2% fee on the transaction unless they present valid identification
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Immigrant Rights

Good Government

H.B. 69 Government Records and Information Amendments
- - Makes it a class B misdemeanor to access election records to determine whether a specific voter or group of voters voted in person, the method by which they voted, or the date on which they voted or returned a ballot Exempts election officers that are fulfilling duties, complying with court orders, or if requested by the specific voter or group of voters. At the last minute, an addition was made to the bill that removes the possibility of being awarded attorneys fees in government records disputes unless the rejection of the records request was made in “bad faith,” making disputes more expensive and possibly leading to more denials.
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Transparency
H.B. 95 Financial Disclosure Revisions
- - Requires the Lieutenant Governor to provide, on the political financial disclosure website, the ability to search across all disclosures made by filing entities to identify contributions or expenditures made by a particular person
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Transparency
H.B. 106 Income Tax Revisions
- - Reduces the individual and corporate income tax rate by 0.05%, from 4.55% to 4.5%
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Budget and Taxes
H.B. 169 State Board of Education Amendments
- - Requires the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to establish a code of conduct and ethical rules for board members, including a process for receiving and reviewing ethics complaints made against members
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Ethics
H.B. 300 Amendments to Election Law
- - Beginning in 2026, voters with a valid state ID (drivers license, state ID, social security number) must include the last four digits of that ID when returning a ballot through the mail or in a drop box, in addition to their signature; Utahns who do not have a valid state ID must obtain one by 2029 to vote by mail; creates a process for indigent voters to get a free state ID, if needed; beginning in 2029, all voters who vote in person must present a valid photo ID, or sign an affidavit and present two forms of alternative ID; requires ballots to be in the county clerks’ possession by 8pm on election night; requires voters to opt-in by 2029 to receive ballots in the mail for eight-year periods, something that can be done when renewing their driver’s license, voting in person, or through an online portal
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Elections and Voting Rights
H.B. 335 Political Advertising Amendments
- - Specifies that an “electioneering communication” or a “political advertisement” includes a communication or advertisement disseminated on a social media platform; authorizes election officers to impose fines against individuals or organizations that violate advertisement disclosure requirements
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Campaign Finance
H.B. 393 Banning Foreign Funding in Ballot Propositions and Elections
- - Prohibits foreign nationals from making a contribution, expenditures for political purposes, or independent expenditures; and prohibits entities subject to campaign finance regulations from knowingly soliciting, accepting, or receiving contributions from foreign nationals
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Campaign Finance
H.B. 412 Boards and Commissions Revisions
- - Eliminates partisan balance requirements that no more than a certain number of members of certain boards, commissions, committees, and councils may be affiliated with or a member of the same political party
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Accountability
H.B. 445 Revisions to Election Law
- - Originally, would have eliminated Election Day Voter Registration and required all Utahns to register to vote at least 29 days before an election. While that was removed, it still imposes unnecessary and arbitrary deadlines on clerks for counting ballots and changes the postmark deadline for mail ballots to require they be received by Election Day, which is also in HB 300.
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Elections and Voting Rights
H.B. 453 State School Board Transparency Amendments
- - Requires the state school board to publish information related to state board meetings on the state board’s website, including votes taken with video and audio recordings
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Transparency
H.B. 465 Public Safety Amendments
- - Requires Salt Lake City to enter into an interagency agreement with the Department of Public Safety to “improve public safety” within the city; also allows for the use of eminent domain within the city for the purpose of erecting a new building to provide homelessness services
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Local Preemption
H.B. 504 Financial and Conflict of Interest Disclosures by Candidates Amendments
- - Requires candidates for local offices, special districts, and midterm vacancies to file conflict of interest disclosure statements and financial reports
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Campaign Finance
H.B. 512 Judicial Retention Changes
- - Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Judicial Performance to evaluate judges and provide recommendations to the public as to whether the judge should be retained for another term, placing the recommendations directly on the ballot, something that isn’t even done for recommendations and evaluations from the already-existing Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Elections and Voting Rights
S.B. 37 Minimum Basic Tax Rate Changes
- - Sends funds from local basic property tax rates to the state’s General Fund, replacing those funds with income tax dollars that are sent to school districts instead
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Budget and Taxes
S.B. 73 Statewide Initiatives Amendments
- - Updates the requirements for a statewide initiative application to include additional information about how the proposed law will be funded, including whether the proposed law will be funded by a new tax, with a description of the new tax and the tax rate; whether the proposed law will be funded from new revenues, with a description of the amount and source of the new revenues; and whether the proposed law will be funded by existing revenues, with a description of the existing programs that will receive less funding and how much they will be reduced by
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Initiatives and Referenda
S.B. 127 Municipal Elections Amendments
- - Extends the expiration of the Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project, which authorizes cities to use ranked choice voting, from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2036
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Elections and Voting Rights
S.B. 195 Transportation Amendments
- - Although it allows Salt Lake City to implement current traffic calming projects, it requires that for any future “highway reduction strategies,” the project must be part of a mobility plan approved by the Department of Transportation
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Local Preemption
S.B. 197 Property Tax Amendments
- - Replaces homeowner property tax credit program, also known as the Circuit Breaker program with a property tax deferral program. By eliminating the homeowner’s credit altogether by 2030, the bill disproportionately affects low- and moderate-income homeowners who rely on this credit to maintain financial stability. Instead of providing direct relief, the proposed changes will increase the financial strain on those least able to bear it by adding tax liens and accruing interest, reducing their limited remaining assets.
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Budget and Taxes
S.B. 203 Judicial Standing Amendments
- - Sets requirements for plaintiffs to bring a “private right of action” in Utah, in other words, defining judicial standing; requires individuals to meet the “traditional standing requirement;” if a plaintiff is asserting the constitutional rights of a third party, requires the plaintiff to establish they have a substantial relationship with the third party, there is no way for the third party to bring their own suit, and that the third party’s constitutional rights would be weakened without the suit; if a plaintiff is an association bringing suit on behalf of any of its members, requires the association to plead with particularity that those members of the association meet the “traditional standing requirements,” that the members consent to the association bringing the action, and that the participation of the members is not necessary to the resolution of the action
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Access to Justice
S.B. 244 Modifications to Income Tax
- - Imposes a tax rate of 5.5% (instead of 4.5%) on individual, estate, and trust income over $1,000,000, adjusted for inflation; and makes the earned income tax credit refundable
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Budget and Taxes
S.B. 277 Government Records Management Amendments
- - Replaces the State Records Committee with the Government Records Office, directed by an attorney with knowledge and experience relating to government records laws
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Transparency
S.B. 296 Judicial Amendments
- - Instead of being selected by justices themselves, changes the appointment to four year-terms of the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court to the governor, with the advice and consent of the Utah Senate
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Checks and Balances
S.B. 337 Land Use and Development Amendments
- - Would create the Beehive Development Agency that would have the power to designate up to three “significant community impact” projects a year in any city or county in the state, while requiring local governments to “cooperate with the agency to the fullest extent possible” in providing support to help the agency fulfill its duties, which could include roads, sewer, policy and fire coverage, schools, or power that the county or city would have to supply, whether the local governments support the project or not; would collect up to 75% of the property tax and sales tax generated by the project to help pay for infrastructure and other development related to the project
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Accountability
S.J.R. 2 Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution—Statewide Initiatives
- - Proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to require 60% approval by voters for a ballot initiative that would impose a new tax, expand an existing tax, increase ann existing tax rate; or cause a propety tax rate to decrease less than it would under current law
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Initiatives and Referenda
S.J.R. 9 Joint Resolution Amending Rules of Civil Procedure on Injunctions
- - In order to challenge the constitutionality of a state law and have it enjoined, requires a motion for a temporary restraining order to be filed at least 45 days before the state law takes effect, if the law takes effect more than 60 days after the day on which the Legislature adjourned; if a party fails to file a motion before that deadline, they may not file a motion for a temporary restraining order until the state law has been in effect for at least 90 days; does not prevent a party from brining a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the law
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Access to Justice

Sustainable Future

H.B. 70 Decommissioned Asset Disposition Amendments
- - Allows a new five-member “Utah Energy Council” to determine a process to continue the operations of existing coal-fired power plants currently operated by the Intermountain Power Agency
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Clean Energy
H.B. 177 Glass Recycling Amendments
- - Requires the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to study how to increase the amount of used glass for recycling
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Sustainability
H.B. 212 Advanced Transmission Technologies
- - Encourages Rocky Mountain Power to analyze “advanced transmission technologies” to increase and improve utilization of existing transmission lines
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Clean Energy
H.B. 243 Agricultural Water Optimization Amendments
- - Allows the Agricultural Water Optimization Committee to use funds it directs to fund research leading to agricultural water optimization
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Water Conservation
H.B. 244 Wildlife Management Area Amendments
- - Creates a wildlife management area known as the Bear River Bay Waterfowl Management Area on the Great Salt Lake and promotes conservation efforts related to wildlife such as preserving and enhancing the natural function, vegetation, and water flows under existing or acquired water rights to provide productive habitat
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Environmental Conservation
H.B. 264 Tax Incentives Amendments
- - Adjusts tax credits and plans for the future repeal of clean energy income tax credits for solar projects and alternative energy development
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Clean Energy
H.B. 274 Water Amendments
- - Provides circumstances for when municipalities, retail water suppliers, and public water systems may set tiered water rates based in part on water conservation, and creates a presumption regarding the reasonableness of certain water rates that include water conservation as an element in determining the rate
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Water Conservation
H.B. 328 Water Usage Amendments
- - For new development and redevelopment, prohibits the use of overhead spray irrigation, except under certain circumstances
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Water Conservation
H.B. 355 Mining and Critical Infrastructure Materials Amendments
- - Makes it easier for certain gravel pits to expand to land a company already owns or controls, and to new, contiguous land later acquired, while great limiting a local government’s ability to deny the expansion; repeals requirements for a person claiming a vested critical infrastructure materials use to prove the use, and instead requires a person challenging the use to disprove the use
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Natural Resources
H.B. 378 Department of Natural Resources Funding Amendments
- - Imposes a new tax on certain wind or solar electric generation facilities and renewable energy project entities
  - Better Utah Position: Oppose
  - Category: Clean Energy
H.B. 420 Halogen Emissions Amendments
- - Allows the Division of Air Quality to complete a best available control technology emissions reduction plan for major halogen sources, and requires the Division to submit an annual report on such emissions
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Clean Air
S.B. 124 Landscaping Procurement Amendments
- - Gradually phases in the use of electric lawn equipment for the landscape maintenance of certain state government facilities.
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Water Conservation
S.B. 217 Recycling and Waste Amendments
- - Requires manufactures of consumer electronic devices to develop public education programs about the collection, reuse, or recycling program for a consumer electronic device
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Sustainability
S.B. 222 Vehicle Emission Inspection Program Revisions
- - Allows the Motor Vehicle Division to revoke the vehicle owner’s registration if the vehicle owner has provided a false address to register a vehilce to avoid an emissions inspection
  - Better Utah Position: Support
  - Category: Clean Air

About the Progress Report

Methodology

We look at every bill that lawmakers consider during the Legislative Session and identify the most important ones. Lawmakers receive scores based on their votes:

+1 point for voting for a good bill or against a bad bill, or -1 point for voting for a bad bill or against a good bill
An extra +1 for cosponsoring a good bill or -1 for cosponsoring a bad bill
An extra +2 for sponsoring a good bill or -2 for sponsoring a bad bill

The 2024 Progress Report includes both bills that passed the Legislature and bills that received some votes but ultimately did not pass. Bills that were introduced but never received any votes were not considered. Lawmakers were only graded on bills they had the opportunity to vote on. Non-votes are scored as a 0. Absences are not calculated for or against the lawmakers score.

Letter grades are assigned based on a quintile distribution of A+ to F. So for example, on a total of 20 bills, the grade distribution would break down as follows:

Action Type	Points
Voted in Line w Better Utah Position	1
Voted Out of Line w Better Utah Position	-1
Absent/Did Not Vote	0
Co-Sponsored in Line	1 additional point
Co-Sponsored Out of Line	-1 additional point
Sponsored/Floor Sponsored in Line	2 additional points
Sponsored/Floor Sponsored Out of Line	-2 additional points
Did not have opportunity to vote	Not used for or against score