LEGISLATIVE BILL TRACKER

2026 General Session of the 67th Legislature

2027 General Session of the 68th Legislature 

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.

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 request 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 LECJ Interim Study Item 3 Registrable Offenses

Publication 2026-38

The Registry's Reach: Purpose, Composition, and the Case for Systematic Review Part I of II was provided to the 2026 Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee (LECJ) Interim  in support of study item 3 on registrable 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. 

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.

6/16/26 UTRSOL Registrable Offense Conviction Trends Court Record Analysis 1983-2026

Publication 2026-49

This document presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of 43 years of Utah court conviction records for all registrable offenses under Utah Code 53-29-202. Drawing on conviction data obtained from the Utah Administrative Office of the Courts, the analysis examines long-term offense patterns, sentencing outcomes, and trends across the registrable offense population from 1983 through 2025.

7/6/26 UTRSOL - Crime in Utah 2015-2025 A Ten-Year Statistical Analysis of BCI Crime in Utah Reports

Publication 2026-50

This document was submitted to the LECJ Interim Committee. It provides a ten-year statistical analysis of Utah crime trends drawn from BCI reports (2015–2025). It breaks down offense categories year-over-year, flags where reporting methodology changed or data quality is uneven, and situates registrable-offense trends against overall crime patterns rather than presenting them in isolation. It's intended to serve as an evidentiary foundation for policy discussions around registrable offenses.

8/6/202 6UTRSOL-USBE August 2026 Handout

This is UTRSOL's August 6, 2026 public comment to the USBE board, supporting administrative rulemaking to close the school-trip background check gap but opposing an escalation to a permanent statutory amendment of §53-29-306 as disproportionate and unsupported by child safety evidence.

8/7/2026 UTRSOL-USBE Law and Licensing Committee Handout

This August 7 follow-up comment argues that USBE's proposed §53-29-306 amendment conflicts with §53-29-307's natural-child exception, potentially barring registrant parents from their own children's school activities, and asks the committee to send the request back to staff for a statutory coordination analysis before it moves forward.

8/17/26 UTRSOL LECJ Interim Study Item 3 Registrable Offenses

Publication 2026-39

The Registry's Reach: Purpose, Composition, and the Case for Systematic Review Part II of II was provided to the 2026 Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee (LECJ) Interim  in support of study item 3 on registrable offenses (12/20)-what qualifies as a registrable offense in Utah. This report argues, using Utah's own registry, court-conviction, and incident data, that eight registrable-offense categories fail all three of the registry's own stated purposes: deterrence, community notification, and law enforcement monitoring, because they were added to the registry without ever being evaluated for actuarial validity, treatment applicability, or purpose alignment, and it asks the LECJ Interim Committee to review those categorie and adopt an evidentiary standard before any future registrable-offenses are added to the registry.

9/8/26 Utah Sentencing Commission Member Profiles

Publication 2026-46

This is a documented, seat-by-seat account of who occupies and exercises each of the Utah Sentencing Commission's twenty member seats (seventeen statutory seats, 3 non-voting), including designee substitutions, voting records, and cross-commission overlaps with CCJJ Commission and the Victim Services Commission, built from official meeting minutes, public records, and prior UTRSOL research. This document was provided to Commissioner Tom Ross and and Criminal Justice Executive Director Daniel Strong. 

9/28/26 UTRSOL-USBE Analytical Memorandum — Section I of IV

This memorandum to argues that the proposed expansion of §53-29-306 should be consolidated into a single statutory bill that preserves the minor-victim qualifier and resolves its conflicts with existing Utah law before any legislative sponsor is identified. It was transmitted to the Utah State Board of Education through the public comment process via the Board's official public comment email address. 

10/5/26 UTRSOL-Victim Services Task Force Funding Brief

This brief proposes that Utah route penalties it collects from technology platforms over harm to children, beginning with the $5 million Aylo settlement and possibly a share of the $212 million Meta settlement, to victim services as a stable supplement to base appropriations, with no new fees on individuals and no reduction in restitution owed to specific victims. It was transmitted to Rep. Ken Ivory, the Victim Services Commission's legislative member who established a victim services task force to act on the 2026 Victim Services Study.

10/15/26 UTRSOL 2027 Sentencing Guidelines Report

Publication 2026-63

This report brings together, in one place, what five state agencies have said separately over 14 months about the prison and treatment system the 2027 sentencing guidelines would add to. It argues from a fiscal and capacity standpoint and asks the Judiciary Interim Committee to put those accounts side by for review and discussion before it votes on the changes. It was transmitted to the committee’s chairs and all members individually, with copies to committee staff for the record ahead of the October 21 committee meeting. 

10/19/26 UTRSOL Platform Penalties for Victim Services

Publication 2026-65

This report proposes routing penalties Utah collects from technology platforms over harm to minors, starting with the $5 million Aylo settlement and a possible share of the $212 million Meta settlement, to the Victim Services Restricted Account, using the same rule the Legislature applied to punitive damages in H.B. 154 (2025), as a supplement to base funding that adds no fees on registered individuals and does not compete with restitution. The report was transmitted to Senator Musselman, Representative Wilcox, and Members of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee.