Accountable to You
My Work in the Legislature
2026 General Legislative Session Committee Assignments:
2025 General Legislative Session Committee Assignments:
During the both sessions, I 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—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—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— 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—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—Creates stronger attendance-monitoring, chronic absenteeism intervention, reporting, and accountability requirements for Utah public schools
SB 53 Public Land Management Advisory Board Amendments—Expands the Public Land Management Advisory Board by adding representatives from historic preservation and Utah's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA).
2026:
H.B. 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).
H.B. 373 Service Marketplace Platforms Amendments [PASSED]— This bill allows daycare providers to hire independent contractors through service marketplace platforms.
H.B. 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.
H.B. 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
HB 438 Artificial Intelligence Amendments- filed not passed
HB 410 Water Leasing Amendments
HB 408 Data Sharing Amendments
HB 387 Kratom Modifications- filed not passed
HB 331 Criminal Offenses Modifications
HB 290 Child Tax Credit Amendments
HB 263 Heavy Duty Vehicle Amendments- filed not passed
HB 250 Utah Retirement Plan Exchange
HB 247 Great Salt Lake Related Amendments
HB 195 Precious Metals Amendments
HB 163 Grow Your Own Educator Pipeline Program Amendments
HB 146 Mentoring and Supporting Teacher Excellence and Refinement Program Amendments
HB 76 Data Center Water Transparency Amendments
HB 74 Signature Gathering Amendments- filed not passed
2026:
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)

