UTRSOL actively monitored and tracked approximately 24 key legislative bills through the 2026 session that impacted existing and proposed sex offense statutes. The PDF file below includes all bills we supported or opposed. This tracker identifies the legislation we were actively engaged with, as well as the positions around which we organized and mobilized around this year.
UTRSOL-2026-Legislative-Bill-Tracker.pdf
The tracking sheet above covers legislation related to civil rights, criminal justice, sex offenses, and victims’ rights—areas we believe have significant positive or negative implications for advancing evidence-based sex offense policy reform in Utah. As the legislative session progressed, our positions and supporting rationale evolved, expanded, and refined accordingly.
Overall, the 2026 session moved significantly in a more punitive direction — expanding registrable offenses, tightening supervision, increasing enforcement mechanisms — despite our opposition to many of these measures. Our commentary is research-grounded, frequently citing evidence-based arguments against bills we opposed.
Throughout the legislative session, we consistently sought evidentiary justification for sex offense legislation from a reform-oriented perspective, submitting written challenges to factual premises ahead of committee hearings and producing multi-chapter analytical critiques with numbered publication codes.
During the 2026 session, UTRSOL published 23 numbered documents in two distinct formats.
Position Statements: one- to two-page formal letters addressed to bill sponsors, delivered prior to committee hearings, presenting our official stance and core arguments.
Policy Critiques: multi-chapter analytical reports, ranging from 10 to 30+ pages per document.
Below is the following materials transmitted directly to sponsors, relevant committee chairs, and CCJJ staff and its divisions, establishing a formal written record that extends beyond the current session to future legislative, administrative, or judicial proceedings.
1/23/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on H.B. 116 [2026]
Publication 2026-02 HB116 Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
1/23/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on H.B. 103 [2026]
Publication 2026-04 HB103 Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
1/28/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB274 [2026]
Publication 2026-05 HB274
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
1/28/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB48 [2026]
Publication 2026-07 HB48
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/2/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB205 [2026]
Publication 2026-11 HB205
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/2/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB110 [2026]
Publication 2026-12 HB110
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/2/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on SB30 [2026]
Publication 2026-14 SB30
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/3/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of H.B. 116 [2026]
Publication 2026-03 HB116 Sent to House Leadership and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee members.
2/4/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB274 [2026]
Publication 2026-06 HB274
Sent to the full House of Representatives for review and consideration.
2/4/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on SJR1 [2026]
Publication 2026-08 SJR1
Sent to the bill's sponsor and Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation. which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/5/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB123 [2026]
Publication 2026-09 HB123
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/5/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB110 [2026]
Publication 2026-13 HB110
Sent to the full House of Representatives for review and consideration.
2/5/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB134 [2026]
Publication 2026-15 HB134
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/5/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB289 [2026]
Publication 2026-17 HB289
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/9/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB123 [2026]
Publication 2026-10 HB123
Sent to the full House of Representatives for review and consideration.
2/9/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB274 Supplement 1 [2026]
Publication 2026-19 HB274
Sent to the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation and subsequently submitted to the full Senate.
2/11/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB89 [2026]
Publication 2026-20 HB89
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/12/26 UTRSOL Position Statement on HB370 [2026]
Publication 2026-16 HB370
Sent to the bill's sponsor and House Judiciary Committee which it was assigned to for presentation.
2/17/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB370 [2026]
Publication 2026-18 HB370
Forwarded to House Leadership, the House Judiciary Committee, and full House for review and consideration.
2/17/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB274 Supplement 2 [2026]
Publication 2026-21 HB274
Forwarded to Senate Leadership, the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee, and full Senate for review and consideration.
2/19/26 UTRSOL Policy Critique of HB110 Supplement 1 [2026]
Publication 2026-22 HB110
Forwarded to Senate Leadership, the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee, and full Senate for review and consideration.
3/9/26 UTRSOL Letter to the Governor [2026]
Publication 2026-24 Governor
Sent to the Governor's office requesting veto or no signature on H.B. 100, H.B. 123, and H.B. 370.
3/16/26 UTRSOL Legislative Record [2026]
Publication 2026-25 UTRSOL Report
This document summarizes our legislative record from the 2026 session, covering 16 committee meetings on 13 bills. It is the testimony record in which UTRSOL appeared in person and placed arguments on the record. It captures not just what positions were taken but how they were constructed and delivered — the specific data deployed, the framing choices made, and the internal contradictions surfaced from the bills' own institutional supporters.
4/13/26 UTRSOL Comprehesive Legislative Analysis [2026]
Publication 2026-26 UTRSOL Report
This publication documents the full scope of UTRSOL's first legislative session engagement — 24 bills tracked, 23 publications produced, positions taken, and outcomes recorded. It establishes what the organization did, argued, and produced across the arc of the session in a single consolidated document.
Below are the following documents presented to stakeholders and legislative interim committees for review, discussion, and consideration as part of ongoing policy development efforts. These materials provide context, data, and recommendations intended to inform decision-making and guide collaborative action. Each reflects UTRSOL's commitment to evidence-proportionate reform and is offered in the spirit of informed, good-faith deliberation.
Publication 2026-28
This presentation outlined the organization's housing assistance coalition framework, documented service to individuals on the sex offense registry facing housing instability, and proposed a structured stakeholder convening to coordinate cross-sector response to registry-based housing barriers.
3/25/26 UTRSOL HEART Presentation Report
Publication 2026-29
This report is an extended document of the Power Point presentation that provides comprehensive narrative analysis, supporting data tables, and actionable policy recommendations for the Salt Lake City Housing Stability Division.
3/30/26 UTRSOL 2026 Interim Study Item Request I
Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee
Publication 2026-32
The Case for an Independent Review Mechanism for Registrable Offense Designations. The request argues that Utah's sex offense registry is expanding through inadvertent statutory cross-reference rather than deliberate legislative review and requests that the Committee adopt a 2026 interim study item to establish a formal proportionality review mechanism for registrable offense designations. Delivered to Policy Analysts and Committee Chairs.
3/30/26 UTRSOL 2026 Interim Study Item Request II
Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee
Publication 2026-33
Registry-Driven Housing Instability as a Criminal Justice System Cost. The request examines of how registry-specific constraints — GPS address requirements, shelter blanket bans, and supervision-imposed residence conditions — convert housing unavailability into technical supervision violations and reincarceration costs that could be reduced through administrative reforms without changing registry law. Delivered to Policy Analysts and Committee Chairs.
3/30/26 UTRSOL 2026 Interim Study Item Request III
Business and Labor Interim Committee
Publication 2026-34
Good Landlord Program Internal Contradiction and Fair-Chance Housing Reform in Utah’s Rental Licensing Market. The request examines whether the Good Landlord Program's categorical criminal history screening mandate — a regulatory condition on a financial incentive program now operating across 15 municipalities — contradicts the state's own housing stability goals and should be revised to require individualized assessment without requiring any change to registry or criminal law. Delivered to Policy Analysts and Committee Chairs.
3/30/26 UTRSOL 2026 Interim Study Item Request IV
Health and Human Services Interim Committee
Publication 2026-35
Registry-Driven Housing Instability as a Child Welfare, Behavioral Health, and Homelessness System Failure. Request examines how registry-driven housing exclusions are generating preventable costs across three domains within the committee's direct jurisdiction and whether administrative modifications to shelter intake protocols, DCFS tracking methodology, and behavioral health coordination can reduce those costs without any change to registry or criminal law. Delivered to Policy Analysts and Committee Chairs.
4/1/26 UTRSOL 2026 Interim Study Item Request V
Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee
Publication 2026-36
Legislative-Driven Incarceration Growth and the Evidence-Proportionality Deficit in Utah Criminal Sentencing Policy. This reqest examines why Utah is spending over $430 million to expand incarceration capacity at the same moment its crime rates are at generational lows — and makes the case that the answer lies in the Legislature's own enactment record, not in public safety necessity.
5/11/26 UTRSOL 2025 Utah Media Analysis
Publication 2026-30
This is UTRSOL's analysis of 1,042 Utah media articles from 2025 documenting how structural biases in crime coverage — stranger overrepresentation, juvenile invisibility, CSAM conflation, and registry salience — produce a public and legislative understanding of child sexual abuse that is nearly inverse to what population-level research actually shows.
5/11/26 UTRSOL 2025 Utah Media Analysis Report
Publication 2026-31
This is the full written report companion to the 2026-30 slide deck, expanding each analytical section with sourced argument, methodological documentation, and policy implications — and serving as UTRSOL's formal submission to legislative and stakeholder audiences on the structural mismatch between Utah's media-driven policy environment and the population-level evidence on child sexual abuse.
5/12/26 UTRSOL Presentation to The Lantern House
Publication 2026-40
UTRSOL's May 12, 2026 presentation to The Lantern House documents 156 registrant housing assistance cases across 10 Utah counties and proposes a formal data-sharing and coordinating committee partnership to build cross-agency evidentiary infrastructure.
5/12/26 UTRSOL Lantern House Presentation Report
Publication 2026-41
This is the formal written report accompanying the May 2026 The Lantern House presentation, providing the full narrative record behind the slide deck's data and proposing a structured four-element collaboration framed explicitly as a service-capacity argument for The Lantern House.
5/12/26 UTRSOL LECJ Interim Study Item 3 Registrable Offenses
Publication 2026-38
This document, was provided to the 2026 Law Enforcemnt and Criminal Justice Committee (LECJ) Interim in support of study item 3 on regiatrable offenses (12/20)-what qualifies as a registrable offense in Utah. It argues that Utah's sex offense registry has expanded to 46 offenses through 43 years of politically-driven, evidence-free accretion rather than systematic purpose-alignment analysis.
5/22/26 UTRSOL Weber Housing Authority Presentation
Publication 2026-43
This presentation makes an evidence-based case to Weber Housing Authority that registry-listed individuals represent a documentable population facing structural housing barriers. It engages WHA to work with UTRSOL as a collaborative partner in developing practical accommodation solutions.
5/22/26 UTRSOL Weber Housing Authority Presentation Report
Publication 2026-44
This report supplements UTRSOL's May 22 presentation to Weber Housing Authority by documenting 12 months of registrant housing instability data across 169 cases and 271 individuals, and proposing a low-commitment collaborative framework that would convert WHA's existing casework into documented evidence with legislative standing.
6/1/26 UTRSOL LECJ 2026 Interim Committee Constituent Profiles
Publication 2026-37
This document, presents district-level registrant profiles for each of the fifteen committee members' districts. Each profile describes the offense composition, registry tenure, conviction origin, geographic distribution, and compliance status of the confirmed registrant population within that district, drawn from the 2026 Utah Department of Public Safety Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Registry dataset.
6/1/26 UTRSOL LECJ 2026 Interim Constituent Profile Cross-District Analysis
Publication 2026-45
This document, synthesizes the fifteen profiles into a series-level examination of cross-district patterns, including offense composition, attempted conviction prevalence, registry tenure, compliance and recidivism, and the institutional reform trajectory that established Item 3 as a formal study item.
6/3/26 UTRSOL Utah Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Registry 2026 Population Analysis
Publication 2026-47
This report presents a comprehensive population-level analysis of Utah's registry as of March 23, 2026, derived from the public-facing iCrimeWatch export maintained by the Utah Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Identification under Utah Code Title 53, Chapter 29. It captures all 10,229 individuals currently required to register in Utah and is the most complete population-level view available from a public source.
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