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They are not day cares, nor private or public schools, but businesses that provide K-12 education to less than 100 students. Microschools are a growing trend in Utah, lawmakers say, and the Legislature approved guidelines to recognize them. South Jordan Republican Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, who has introduced various education-related bills, said his bill SB13, titled […]

A Utah legislative committee voted not to advance a bill that would have added a renter and housing advocate to the states Commission on Housing Affordability.

For months, the Utah State Legislature has been butting heads with the Salt Lake City Police Department – accusing the agency of intentionally circumventing gun laws at the SLC International Airport.

A newly filed bill would classify pregnant women as two people and therefore allow them to use the HOV lane on Utah highways.

State lawmakers wanted answers after learning an officer with the SLCPD could lose his job for trying to follow a new law meant to stop gun owners from being ticketed at the airport.

A bill that would have allowed pregnant women to use HOV lanes in Utah failed in a Senate committee Monday morning.

A Utah lawmaker proposed recognizing an unborn fetus as a separate person for driving in the HOV lane. A Utah Senate committee voted down the bill, citing legal concerns and issues about implementing the law.

In several Utah laws, including ones on homicide and abortion, an unborn fetus is considered a separate person, but when it comes to carpool lanes that may not be the case.

If a bill eventually passes, pregnant women in Utah would soon receive an added perk while driving on state highways

Baby On Board