| Updated: March 3, 2021, 1:02 a.m. As Utah’s population grows more diverse, an effort is under way at the Capitol to purge state law of a controversial English-only provision that passed at the ballot box a couple decades ago. Initiative A, which drew a lawsuit after voters approved it in 2000, declares English as the official language of Utah government and restricts the way state and local leaders can communicate with the public. But those provisions no longer fit Utah’s values or its practical needs, said Sen. Kirk Cullimore, who’s sponsoring the repeal bill. “We’re not the same state, we’re not the same country that we were when this initiative passed over 20 years ago,” Cullimore, R-Sandy, said during a Wednesday afternoon bill hearing. “We have grown, and I think our law should reflect this.”