Alliance for a Better Utah calls for investigation into Senate President Stuart Adams
Elizabeth Hutchings
May 6, 2026
The government watchdog organizations calls it a “Textbook Conflict of Interest”
Tag: Utah Senate
Better Utah responds to SJR3, resolution to overturn mask mandate in Salt Lake County
Better Utah
January 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 18, 2022 Salt Lake City, UT – Today, on the first day of the 45-day General Legislative Session, the Senate passed S.J.R. 3, Joint Resolution to Terminate Public Health Order Issued by Salt Lake County Health Department, (Senator Dan McCay, R). In order to rush the bill through, GOP leadership
Utah’s conflict of interest problem
Lauren Simpson
April 2, 2021
With the Legislative session now a month behind us, it’s a good time to reflect not just on what happened, but what we want the Legislature to look like in the future. Utah has long resisted implementing meaningful ethical standards for public officials. As a matter of fact, a few years ago lawmakers decided to
Better Utah responds to bill making signature-gathering for ballot initiatives harder
Better Utah
March 5, 2021
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2021 Salt Lake City, UT – Today, Utah’s Senate voted 22-7 to pass HB136 from Representative Teuscher, the bill which would make signature-gathering for ballot initiatives harder. The bill is backed by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based conservative advocacy group that opposes Medicaid expansion. Lauren Simpson, policy director
Better Utah responds to anti-democracy bill advancing in the Senate
Better Utah
February 26, 2021
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 26, 2021 Salt Lake City, UT – Tonight, in a surprise turnaround, the Utah Senate voted 18-11 to advance SB205 from Senator Dan McCay. The bill would allow the Utah Republican Party to require candidates to be nominated through the convention process, abandoning the signature-gathering route created under the 2014 “SB
Press Release: Better Utah statement on non-consensual ultrasound bill passed by men
Better Utah
March 10, 2020
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 10, 2020 Salt Lake City, UT – Following debate and passage of HB 364, Abortion Revisions, in the State Senate, Lauren Simpson, policy director for Alliance for a Better Utah, issued the following statement: “All the women, both Democrats and Republicans, walked off the floor today during the vote. Only
Utah Senate votes to require burial or cremation of fetal remains
Better Utah
February 10, 2020
This article originally appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune. Read it in its entirety here. Members of the Utah Senate gave an early vote of support on Monday to a bill that requires health care providers to either bury or cremate the remains of an abortion or miscarriage. Bill sponsor Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, said the bill is meant to ensure that the bodies of unborn children
Senate to debate bill to delay effective date of voter-approved ballot measures to give Legislature a chance to ‘fix’ them
Better Utah
March 8, 2019
This article originally appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune. Read it in its entirety here. After legislators repealed and replaced two ballot initiatives passed by voters in November, a trio of bills designed to change the ballot initiative process is nearing the finish line. The Senate Government Operations Committee approved three such House-passed bills on
