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UtahS.B. 1952025 General SessionSenateWALLET
Transportation Amendments
Sponsored By: Wayne A. Harper (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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19 provisions identified: 9 benefits, 5 costs, 5 mixed.
Funding for Utah roads and studies
For the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025, the transportation investment fund supports three named projects. The law authorizes up to $300 million for land rights and construction on SR-89 in a first-class county. It designates $3 million for the I-15 Salem and Benjamin environmental study and $2 million for Kane County's Coral Pink Sand Dunes Road. The department may also use the fund to preserve future road corridors when the Transportation Commission prioritizes that funding. For projects not prioritized, the Commission must approve funding and find it will not delay a prioritized project.
False addresses risk emissions evasion penalties
Counties may investigate vehicle owners suspected of using a false or improper address to avoid a required emissions inspection. A county may impose a $1,000 civil penalty after finding that an owner used the address to evade inspection.
Unpaid mileage charges can block registration
Beginning May 7, 2025, unpaid road usage charges or penalties can lead to an alternative-fuel vehicle registration hold. This applies to owners or lessees enrolled in the road usage charge program who miss the payment deadline. The transportation department may request the hold, which may block renewal until the department withdraws its request.
Utah shifts money for transportation
For fiscal years starting July 1, 2023, the transportation investment fund gets 24% of specified sales tax revenue, up from 17%. The law also transfers $330 million from the General Fund for July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It ends an annual transfer of up to $1.8134 million out of the transportation fund, keeping that money there. However, starting July 1, 2025, it ends transfers into that fund from a 1.8-cent-per-gallon fuel tax; the tax remains. Transfers, deposits, and appropriations into the transportation investment fund are excluded from the state spending limit. This replaces the Centennial Highway Fund exclusion, and the law repeals that fund's authorizing section.
Assistive mobility devices gain bicycle access
Beginning May 7, 2025, electric personal assistive mobility devices may use highways where bicycles are allowed. On roads with four or more regular traffic lanes, or speed limits above 35 miles per hour, riders must use bicycle lanes. Bicycle traffic rules apply in these areas.
Older cars can skip emissions tests
Counties with required emissions inspections may exempt vehicles at least 30 years old. A qualifying vehicle must have traveled fewer than 1,500 miles in the preceding 12 months, as determined by the county. Owners must sign a statement confirming collector use for club activities, exhibitions, tours, or parades, or only occasional transportation. The exemption is a county choice, not an automatic statewide exemption.
Toll notices follow each tollway's terms
Beginning May 7, 2025, the transportation department must give unpaid-toll notices according to the tollway's terms, replacing the mailed-correspondence requirement. Notices must include required information about the unpaid toll, penalty, and any registration hold. This notice change does not change the amount owed.
Certified shared cars get tax relief
Beginning July 1, 2025, certified individual-owned vehicles used for car sharing are exempt from one specified state sales tax. Other applicable state and local taxes still apply. Owners must certify the vehicle once during ownership, and the state must verify that Utah purchase taxes were paid. Car-sharing programs may rely in good faith on certification. A program need not collect that tax for a tax period when all vehicles it shares are certified.
Cities must plan better transportation connections
Municipalities within metropolitan planning organization boundaries must update their transportation plans by July 1, 2027, after consulting relevant stakeholders. Plans must identify priority connections across physical barriers to key destinations, costs, possible funding, and construction barriers. Regional planning groups must report by November 1 in 2025, 2026, and 2027 on progress, roadway-grid studies, barriers, and funding. Connectivity must be considered in specified project rankings. The Transportation Commission may also favor qualifying walking, nonmotorized, and transit-connection projects, and consider connectivity for infrastructure loans or assistance.
Search and rescue gets dedicated funding
Beginning May 7, 2025, specified tax deposits are reserved solely for Utah's Search and Rescue Financial Assistance Program. This provision sets no deposit amount or new household payment.
Air ambulance patients get dispatch protections
Beginning May 7, 2025, licensed air ambulance providers must share real-time location and availability with all emergency medical dispatch centers. They must use statewide software updated through a location transponder or dispatch-system link. Dispatch centers must select the nearest, readily available ambulance best suited to the patient's needs and the provider's abilities. An air ambulance carrying a patient cannot be redirected to another emergency or leave that patient to answer another call.
Transit pilot grants start in 2026
Beginning July 1, 2026, transit innovation grants support targeted pilots to increase ridership, serve high-growth areas, or expand transit. Transit districts must make grant money available from their 0.10% transit sales tax allocation. The amount equals 10% of that allocation not contractually committed to debt service. The transportation department may accept and rank applications and pay grants as the Transportation Commission directs. Awards are not guaranteed.
Utah-based aircraft must maintain state registration
Beginning May 7, 2025, civil aircraft based in Utah for at least 181 days in any consecutive 12 months need current state registration. Exceptions cover foreign-licensed aircraft under qualifying U.S. reciprocal agreements and specified FAA-authorized, non-passenger inspection or test flights. Qualifying Part 121 aircraft with maximum takeoff weights above 35,000 pounds are also exempt. The provision does not state a registration fee.
Canyon gondola construction must follow phases
Beginning May 7, 2025, the transportation department faces a construction limit for Cottonwood Canyons projects that include a gondola. After completing an environmental impact statement, it must follow the construction phases in the project's record of decision. The rule applies in Salt Lake County.
Salt Lake street reductions need approval
Certain Salt Lake City arterial and collector street projects tied to highway reduction strategies need state approval before starting. The area is west of Foothill Drive, north of 2100 South, east of I-15, and south of 600 North. A mobility plan must assess traffic, travel, air quality, safety, related impacts, mitigation, and public and stakeholder input. The department must approve or reject a complete plan within two months; projects advertised by February 25, 2025, may proceed. Projects programmed by July 1, 2024, but not advertised by that February date, need expedited review and approval; the law repeals the highway-reduction subsection on July 1, 2029.
Electric riders gain access with limits
Beginning May 7, 2025, electric unicycles and self-balancing electric skateboards generally follow bicycle traffic rules. They are exempt from specified seating, handlebar, lighting, horn, mirror, and driver-license requirements. Riders may cross roads in crosswalks at a reasonable, safe speed without negligently causing collisions with pedestrians or human-powered road users. Electric unicycles cannot exceed 28 miles per hour or use public property posted as banning bicycles. Structurally or mechanically altered unicycles are barred, except for speed-limiting changes made by or requested by a renter.
State keeps newly acquired transit property
Beginning May 7, 2025, the transportation department keeps property it acquires for transit instead of ownership automatically passing to a transit district. It may transfer property beside or supporting a district's fixed-guideway system when the transfer benefits the state. Transfers are also allowed to meet federal grant or other funding requirements, or under the department's property-transfer rules. Transit vehicles may be transferred when doing so benefits the state or meets funding requirements.
Cities take on street lighting costs
Beginning May 7, 2025, municipalities must operate and maintain street lights furnished and installed by the transportation department. The department handles lighting along interstate highways and at signalized intersections that include a state highway. A municipality requesting decorative lights must pay for installation, operation, and upkeep.
West Valley road funding shifts
For fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26, West Valley City's reimbursement rises from $1.8 million to $3.25 million. It covers 4000 West between 4100 South and 4700 South, plus 4700 South between 4000 West and Bangerter Highway. Payments depend on project progress and available revenue. The law removes a separate $1.45 million reimbursement listed for those years for a road connecting 5400 South to U-111.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Wayne A. Harper
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Kay J. Christofferson
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/6/2025
Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/6/2025
House Conference Committee - Final Passage
Yes: 61 • No: 9
House vote • 3/6/2025
House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/6/2025
Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage
Yes: 20 • No: 2
Senate vote • 3/5/2025
Senate/ refuse to concur with House amendments
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/5/2025
House/ refused to recede from House amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/5/2025
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/5/2025
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/4/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 60 • No: 14
House vote • 3/4/2025
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/27/2025
House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 12 • No: 0
House vote • 2/27/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 10 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 19 • No: 6
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/18/2025
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/10/2025
Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 6 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/10/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 6 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
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Yes: 0 • No: 0
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Senate/ uncircled
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Senate/ circled
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Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ refused to recede from House amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ refuse to concur with House amendments
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ circled
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Senate/ circled
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House/ floor amendment
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Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/26/2025Senate/ to Governor
3/13/2025SenateSenate/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/13/2025SenateSenate/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/12/2025SenateEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/12/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/7/2025Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
3/7/2025Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/7/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/6/2025HouseHouse/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate
3/6/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/6/2025HouseSenate/ to House
3/6/2025SenateSenate Conference Committee - Final Passage
3/6/2025SenateSenate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
3/6/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/6/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/6/2025HouseHouse Conference Committee - Final Passage
3/6/2025HouseHouse Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
3/6/2025HouseConference Committee Report
3/6/2025Bill Substituted by Conference Committee
3/6/2025Senate/ to House
3/5/2025SenateSenate Conference Committee Appointed
3/5/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/5/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/5/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/12/2025
Substitute #7
3/6/2025
Amended 3/4/2025 21:03:834
3/4/2025
Substitute #6
3/4/2025
Substitute #5
2/27/2025
Substitute #4
2/24/2025
Substitute #3
2/20/2025
Amended 2/19/2025 14:02:553
2/19/2025
Substitute #2
2/17/2025
Substitute #1
2/7/2025
Introduced
1/29/2025