Some bills I’m working on for this General Session:

• Patient Visitation - ensuring the rights of patients to have a visitor with them in a hospital setting. I just received word yesterday that the Utah Hospital Association supports this bill.

• Prohibiting the use of ESG Social Credit Scores in Utah (one of the four ESG bills we will hear this session)

• Community Associations - requiring greater transparency from HOAs, particularly election transparency.

• Expungement of Nonajudicated Juvenile Records for non-violent criminal involvement that did not go before a judge but remain on the individual’s record, often becoming impediments to progress later in life.

• Curriculum Participation Waiver - allowing children in K-12 education to decline participation in activities or assignments they find invasive or offensive - essentially, to conscientiously object

• Temporary Restraining Order (of one month only) for individuals leaving in-house treatment for mental health and substance abuse. It’s a protective order for the individual to allow time for them to adjust to new medications and therapeutic programs outside of the institution, preventing suicide.

• Simplifying the Medicaid Application Process (currently a literacy test, a technology test, and an endurance contest, rather than a qualification assessment)

• Prison Health Care Services Amendments - to allow prison medical staff to transition into HHS while still retaining their retirement benefits

• Sale of Goat Dairy - will allow the sale of clearly labeled unpasteurized goat cheese products.

To track these or other bills during session, visit this link: https://le.utah.gov/asp/billsintro/RepResults.asp?Listbox3=ACTONCK