Ahead of the Utah Legislature’s vote to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of a bill banning transgender girls from female school sports, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the Salt Lake City Council issued a joint statement stating Utah’s capital “loves and supports our transgender and non-binary friends.”
Eight Utah lawmakers are retiring or seeking other office in this year’s election. The candidate filing deadline for the 2022 election passed on Friday.
Lawmakers tackled a wide range of issues, starting out by once again flexing control over local COVID-19 restrictions in the early days of the session even as Utah’s cases were peaking from the omicron surge. From there, lawmakers wrestled with a $24 billion budget, tax cuts, spending on water, education and more. Here’s what happened