House, Senate bills passed by Utah Legislature

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The following is a list of bills passed by the 2003 Utah Legislature:

House bills:

HB1 (Bigelow) -- Funds appropriations and reductions for state government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004.

HB3 (Snow) -- Provides funding for the Minimum School Program and school building aid programs.

HB4 (Parker) -- Modifies the Insurance Code to allow viatical settlements for everyone, not just the terminally ill.

HB7 (Hogue) -- Establishes that groups wanting special license plates must pay to have plates designed.

HB9 (Daniels) -- Allows examiners of a defendant access to all relevant information including mental health records.

HB12 (Bryson) -- Changes Utah Optometry Practice Act, requiring doctors to give patients more information about contact lenses.

HB13 (Dillree) -- Extends the period for which property may be acquired for transportation projects from 20 to 30 years.

HB14 (Allen) -- Provides an exception to the growth factor requirement for an appropriation to the Tourism Marketing Performance Fund.

HB15 (Bush) -- Requires the State Armory Board to notify the Legislature prior to making purchases or signing lease contracts.

HB16 (Anderson) -- Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to prepare an equal opportunity plan instead of an affirmative action plan.

HB17 (Buttars) -- Changes the Agricultural Product Dealers Act by increasing the ceiling on a surety bond before a license is issued to a dealer.

HB18 (Buttars) -- Requires the issuance of a product of agriculture receipt to a producer by a dealer who receives a product of agriculture for sale, storage, or consignment from the producer.

HB19 (Newbold) -- Provides additional unemployment benefits for individuals who have exhausted their regular benefits.

HB21 (Hansen) -- Removes the State Building Board as the State Building Ownership Authority and designates the governor, state treasurer and chairman of the building board as the authority.

HB22 (Harper) -- Amends the definition of household income and defines terms of eligibility to claim homeowner's credit or renter's credit.

HB23 (Murray) -- Repeals the Utah Public Airport Authority Act and expands provision of the Aeronautics Act regarding operation of an airport.

HB24 (Cox) -- Renumbers the sections constituting the Hazardous Waste Facilities Management Act.

HB25 (Hogue) -- Modifies Limited Purpose Local Government Entities provisions to change the date before which no local district may be created.

HB26 (Bigelow) -- Establishes issuance requirements, repayment requirements, investment requirements, tax-exempt status and legal investment status for general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes.

HB27 (Buttars) -- Modifies the State Affairs in General title by changing the structure and statutory cap of the Budget Reserve Account. It also creates an Education Budget Reserve Account.

HB28 (Snow) -- Amends provisions relating to the Oil and Gas Severance Tax by extending the time period for a taxpayer to claim a tax credit for a workover or recompletion.

HB29 (Snow) -- Amends provisions relating to Mines and Mining and the Oil and Gas Severance by modifying the due dates for making quarterly payments of fees deposited into the Oil and Gas Conservation Account and requires the fees to be reported.

HB30 (Cox) -- Requires voter approval of an annexation to a local district in which the counties, cities, and towns impose a sales and use tax for transit district purposes.

HB31 (Alexander) -- Modifies provisions related to public assistance overpayments by transferring the recovery of overpayments responsibility from the Office of Recovery Services to the Department of Workforce Services.

HB32 (Murray) -- Allows a waiver or refund of the $200 DUI administrative impound fee if evidence is presented that the Driver License Division did not suspend or revoke the person's driver's license or that the vehicle was stolen.

HB33 (Curtis) -- Modifies the Legislative Code and enlarges the legislative client represented by the legislative general counsel in cases and controversies.

HB34 (Morley) -- Changes language in the Child Welfare Legislative Oversight Panel to conform terms with the Open and Public Meetings Act, directing the panel to consider the concerns of all parties to a case it discusses.

HB35 (Hughes) -- Modifies and consolidates reports pertaining to the state's child welfare system.

HB36 (Mascaro) -- Permits the Division of Community Development to assist local governments in the development of accessible housing.

HB37 (Lockhart) -- Restores Medicaid eligibility to aged, blind, or disabled persons below 100 percent of the federal poverty level.

HB38 (Gowans) -- Modifies the Uniform Commercial Code by deleting a provision requiring the Division of Corporations to annually report to the Administrative Rules Review Committee regarding the operation of the filing office.

HB39 (Dayton) -- Eliminates requirements of the State System of Public Education to submit certain reports to the Legislature.

HB40 (Aagard) -- Defines terms, requires a notice be given by a commercial entity under certain circumstances, and establishes the liability of a commercial entity for violating the Notice of Intent to Sell Act.