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My Work in the Legislature
2026 General Legislative Session Committee Assignments:
2025 General Legislative Session Committee Assignments:
Throughout my time in the Legislature, I have sponsored and passed several bills to improve public safety and support working families.
Here is a list of my bills and what they proposed:
My Sponsored Legislation
HB 520 Higher Education Student Housing Study [PASSED]—This bill requires Utah's higher education system to conduct a feasibility study and report on student housing needs, capacity, and potential policy options for expanding student housing.
HB 265 Non-nicotine Inhalation Product Amendments [PASSED]—This bill regulates non-nicotine inhalation products (such as certain vape products), including registration, enforcement, and restrictions on unapproved cannabinoid inhalation products.
HB 190 Child Care Business Tax Credit [PASSED]— This bill expands and enhances tax credits for employers that provide or help pay for employee child care, including support for off-site child care arrangements and larger credits for small businesses.
SB 181 School Discipline Amendments [PASSED]—This bill establishes statewide safety standards for school seclusion rooms and creates a grant program to help schools bring existing facilities into compliance.
SB 58 Public School Attendance Amendments [PASSED]—This bill creates stronger attendance-monitoring, chronic absenteeism intervention, reporting, and accountability requirements for Utah public schools.
SB 53 Public Land Management Advisory Board Amendments [PASSED]—This bill expands the Public Land Management Advisory Board by adding representatives from historic preservation and Utah's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA).
2026:
HB 361 Opioid Overdose Training Amendments [PASSED]— This bill provides training and education to individuals seeking an alcohol server license to recognize an opioid-related drug overdose and administer naloxone (Narcan).
HB 373 Service Marketplace Platforms Amendments [PASSED]— This bill allows daycare providers to hire independent contractors through service marketplace platforms.
HB 389 Child Care Business Tax Credit—This bill would have provided a tax credit for qualified businesses that pay for childcare services for their employees or build/expand their childcare facilities.
HB 524 Supplement Inhalation Product Amendments— This bill would have regulated supplement inhalation products, such as vitamin vapes, that have been fraudulently marketed for unproven health benefits and do not have FDA approval.
2025:
My Co-Sponsored Legislation
SB 101 Specialized Product Amendments (Sen. Vickers) [PASSED]
HB 331 Criminal Offenses Modifications (Rep. Clancy) [PASSED]
HB 247 Great Salt Lake Related Amendments (Rep. Ward) [PASSED]
HB 163 Grow Your Own Educator Pipeline Program Amendments (Rep. Wilcox) [PASSED]
HB 76 Data Center Water Transparency Amendments (Rep. Koford) [PASSED]
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2025:
Op-Eds
Education:
“How Community Connection Can Help Solve Chronic Absenteeism in Utah Schools”- Deseret News (June 9, 2025)
“The Future Belongs to Those Who Can Lead”- Deseret News (June 17, 2025)
“Did You Know? Why Absenteeism is Quietly Undermining Education in Utah”- Deseret News (July 1, 2025)
“The Real Crisis in Education is What We Aren’t Measuring”- The Hill (July 9, 2025)
“The Real Education Crisis Is Not What You Think It Is”- Washington Examiner (July 21, 2025)
“Real Education Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight”- Washington Times (July 28, 2026)
Childcare:
“Utah is a Childcare Desert and the Costs are Financial and Generational”- Deseret News (January 3, 2026)
Retirement:
“The Hidden Financial Threat Facing Utah– and How We Fix It”- Deseret News (February 5, 2026)
“How States Can Fix America’s Retirement Access Shortfall”- Washington Times (February 9, 2026)
Governance, Government Structure, Balance in Government, and Federalism:
“A Nation Out of Balance– Why Commitment to Structure Matters More Than Ever”- Deseret News (May 3, 2025)
“Make it Beautiful: The One Big Bill Must Respect State Leadership”- Washington Times (June 18, 2025)
“How to Restore Trust: Bring Back Federalism”- The Hill (June 30, 2025)
“Intel and the Future of Free-Market Economics”- Washington Times (September 1, 2025)
“What Charlie Kirk’s Death Should Teach Us”- Washington Examiner (September 16, 2025)
“We’re Letting Government Replace Religion”- Washington Times (November 4, 2026)
“Less Washington, More America”- Washington Examiner (May 5, 2026)
“Centralized Power Raises the Stakes of American Elections”- Deseret News (May 21, 2026)
Tributes and Popular Culture:
“Russell M. Nelson’s Lessons to All”- Washington Times (September 29, 2026)
“President Russell M. Nelson– Healing Hearts in a Divided Age”- Deseret News (September 29, 2026)
“The Politically Incorrect Crisis: How Society is Failing Boys and Men”- Washington Examiner (December 20, 2025)
“Remembering President Jeffrey R. Holland: A Life That Taught Us to Hope”- Cache Valley Daily (December 30, 2025)

