| Key Bills, Amendments, and Votes by Representative Tilton |
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| 2008 GENERAL SESSION |
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| HB 383 Statewide Capital Equalization Outlay |
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| This bill is Representative Tilton’s proposal to address the problem that some schools have with capital building projects. It makes a one-time allocation of roughly $28 million that would assist in implementing the new formula for calculating school building funding. It also pools a portion of the tax revenue intended for school building and maintenance, and then reallocates the funding based on need and growth throughout the state. The recipients of the funding are districts that 1) have demonstrated effort to tax their constituents to at least a certain level, 2) have need as demonstrated by enrollment growth project needs, and 3) have less ability to provide the necessary funding based on property valuation and income. Districts below a certain level of enrollment or within lower county classifications automatically are not part of the program, but could opt in if they felt it would benefit them. |
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HJR 10 Resolution Opposing the Designation of Public Lands
as Wilderness in Utah |
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| Representative Tilton’s resolution sends a strong, bi-partisan message to Congress and to the Bureau of Land Management that the Legislature and the citizens of Utah oppose the America’s Red Rock Wilderness bill proposed by New York Congressman Hinchey. The Red Rock Wilderness bill would designate over 9.4 million acres of public lands in Utah as “wilderness.” This designation would restrict access to these public lands for multiple uses such as recreation, grazing, and natural resource development. Representative Tilton, as the chief sponsor of this resolution, joins with the great majority of the state legislature and the unanimous voice of the Utah congressional delegation in opposing this wilderness designation. |
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| SB 20 Municipal Government Amendments |
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| Co-sponsored by Representative Tilton in the House, this bill requires that any new cities that incorporate must choose a governing body from of one of the following: a 5-member, 6-member, 5-member council-mayor, or 7-member council-mayor form of municipal government. It also requires any cities operating under the council-manager form to continue operating as such, unless a change is made in the future. If such a decision is to be made, it must be made on the same day as the municipal general election or a regular general election. It also does not allow the Mayor to serve as the municipal recorder or treasurer, and the recorder may not serve also as treasurer. A majority vote of all voting members is required to pass ordinances or motions, regardless of vacancies. It also clarifies duties and responsibilities of mayors and municipal councils so that they are separate, but equal, branches of government. |
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| SB 48 Equalization of School Capital Outlay Funding |
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| Co-sponsored by Representative Tilton in the House, this bill takes an approach to equalizing the funding of school building projects that is similar to, but somewhat different from, that of HB383 (above). It appropriates $56 million in additional ongoing funding from the Uniform School Fund to the State Board of Education for the Capital Outlay Foundation Program and the Capital Outlay Enrollment Growth Program. It requires districts to levy at least a certain rate of capital projects property tax in order to receive funding from the state, describes how the funding will be distributed, and tries to smooth the capital funding of any split districts. |
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| HB 323 Eminent Domain Amendments |
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| This bill, sponsored by Representative Tilton, clarifies that eminent domain cannot be used by any government for a park where the primary purpose of the park is for a path or trail to be used for walking, biking, equestrian or other recreational uses. It originally also prohibited the use of eminent domain in condemning private property for emergency access ways. |
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| 2007 GENERAL SESSION |
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| SB 223 Tax Amendments |
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| Representative Tilton voted in favor of this tax amendment bill that reduced individual income taxes, the state sales and use tax, and revised many other tax credit statutes, such as renewable energy and food taxes. This resulted in roughly $220 million to be returned to Utah taxpayers in 2008 and 2009. |
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| HB 236 7th Substitute – Student Club Amendments |
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| This bill provides parents with more supervision of the clubs in which their children participate. It: |
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- Requires that students obtain written permission from their parent or guardian to participate in any curricular or noncurricular club, and that the permission form contain the name, purpose statement, and faculty sponsor or monitor of the club.
- Requires faculty oversight for all clubs, whether curricular or noncurricular.
- Requires the investigation of complaints about clubs, provides school with options for violations and establishes appeal procedures.
- Gives the State Board of Education and local school boards authority to regulate school clubs.
- Limits clubs in elementary school to curricular-only clubs.
- Requires that clubs cannot encourage criminal conduct, promote bigotry, involve human sexuality or any mental health therapy or counseling.
- States that schools can establish the times and places when the clubs meet, and regulate their access to school facilities and services, as long as they’re treated equally.
- Requires that materials presented at noncurricular events (by a nonschool person) must be given to school administrators and available at parental request.
- Requires that complaints about clubs be investigated, and that students who make false complaints will be disciplined.
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| HB 333 Materials Harmful to Minors |
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| Representative Tilton’s bill gives business owners incentive to cover up or otherwise make indecent materials inaccessible to minors by 1) using blinder racks to cover the outer portions of indecent materials, 2) using some other means to cover the content, or 3) displaying the material in an area that is not accessible to minors or cannot be viewed by minors. It also allows for local regulation of the use of blinder racks. |
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| HB 120 1st Substitute Utility Facility Review Board |
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| Representative Tilton’s bill changed the name of the Electric Facility Review Board to the Utility Facility Review Board. This was done to include gas under the supervision umbrella. It also reduced the time the board has to make a decision from 140 days to 45 days. |
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| HB 188 Easements – Counties and Municipalities |
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| Sponsored by Representative Tilton, this bill allows a property owner to realign a utility easement that was acquired through eminent domain, as long as it is feasible and at the owner’s expense. |
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| HB 285 Land Use Development Management Act Amendments |
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| Representative Tilton’s bill states that when a utility owner or operator of underground utilities approves a plat map, it does not verify or confirm the exact location of the utility facility nor does it affect the utility owner’s rights. |
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| HB 315 Regulation of Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices |
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| This bill, sponsored by Representative Tilton, provided that persons may ride Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices (like Segways) on sidewalks, trails and roads where bicycles are allowed under certain conditions, including at night. It allows local governments to make regulations about such devices, and requires that persons parking such a device do so out of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. A person riding such a device is not allowed to carry anything that would take one or both hands off of the controls. |
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| 2006 GENERAL SESSION |
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| SB 117 Eminent Domain Amendments |
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| Representative Tilton amended this bill in order to clarify that eminent domain is not to be used to acquire property for trails and paths. It also required that the use of eminent domain for authorized purposes be approved by the governing body, and that they give written notice to the affected property owners of public meetings regarding the use of eminent domain. The person or governing body is also required to try to acquire the property through other means before taking a final vote on an eminent domain action. |
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| HB 36 Notice Requirements for Budget Transfers from Utility Funds |
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| Representative Tilton’s bill requires cities, towns, counties and special districts to give 7 days notice, under certain circumstances, before moving funds from the Utility Fund to other funds. |
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| SB 41 3rd Sub - Local Issues Amendments |
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| Representative Tilton sponsored this bill in the House, which prevented any governing body from establishing a manager form of government from Jan 1, 2007 to May 5, 2008 and established a task force to study municipal forms of government and report to the Political Subdivisions Interim Committee. |
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| 2005 GENERAL SESSION |
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| HB 8 Child Protection Team Meetings |
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| This bill, sponsored by Representative Tilton, revised how and when child protection team meetings are held. The bill requires that such a meeting be held within the shorter of: |
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- 24 hours of receiving custody of a child (not counting weekends and holidays) if taken into protective custody;
- 24 hours of the filing of the petition if the child is likely to go into protective custody unless there will be an expedited hearing; or
- 14 days from when the petition is filed if neither of the above requirements are met.
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