One of the much anticipated housing/land use bills came out today – HB364 Housing Affordability Amendments https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0364.htmlby Rep. Whyte.  This bill adresses a number of issues that cropped up with the moderate income housing plan reports and with housing funds and programs.  It is NOT the land use task force bill that we expect Rep. Whyte to be the sponsor of, that apparently is still coming.  Anyway, one of the big anticipated bills down!

Also, in an email I sent out yesterday I referred to a bill on water rights exactions that came out early in the week.  It apparently got moving pretty fast, but here’s an update about it from the League:

HB158 Water Exactions Amendments was pulled from the committee agenda this afternoon after several of our members reached out to their senators, and ULCT staff met with Senator McKell raising concerns with the bill language. This bill could still be amended and come back in a future committee so we will continue to negotiate with the sponsor.