Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah SB114: Veteran Access to State Parks
Status: Failed, March 7, 2025
This bill addresses a program that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks for qualified veterans.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Veteran Access to State Parks 2025 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Karen Kwan House Sponsor: Matthew H. Gwynn LONG TITLE General Description: This bill addresses a program that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks for qualified veterans. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - creates a program, as funding allows, that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks to qualified veterans who are residents of the state; - requires the Division of State Parks to offer the discounted veteran pass at a reduction of at least 25% of the price of a state parks annual day-use pass; and - grants rulemaking authority to establish the program. Money Appropriated in this Bill: This bill appropriates $300,000 in operating and capital budgets for fiscal year 2026, all of which is from the General Fund. Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: AMENDS: 63I-2-279 , (Effective 05/07/25) as last amended by Laws of Utah 2024, Third Special Session, Chapter 5 79-4-1002 , (Effective 05/07/25) as enacted by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 376 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: Section 1, Section 63I-2-279 is amended to read: 63I-2-279 (Effective 05/07/25). Repeal dates: Title 79. (1) Section 79-2-206 , Transition, is repealed July 1, 2024. (2) Section 79-2-407 , Study of funding for water infrastructure …
Sponsors
- Karen Kwan (D, 12) · primary sponsor
- Gwynn, Matthew H. (R, 6)
Latest actions
- : Senate/ filed
- : Senate/ received from House
- : House/ to Senate
- : House/ strike enacting clause
- : House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- : House/ committee report favorable
- : House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
- : House/ to standing committee
- : House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- : House/ received from Senate
Votes
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 12, 2025): 9 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate/ passed 3rd reading (February 6, 2025): 17 yea, 12 nay, passed
- Senate/ failed (February 5, 2025): 13 yea, 15 nay, failed
- Senate/ passed 2nd reading (February 4, 2025): 15 yea, 14 nay, passed
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation (January 24, 2025): 5 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation (January 24, 2025): 5 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Veterans and Military Benefits, Outdoor Recreation, Natural Resources, State Lands, New Rulemaking Authority, Veterans and Military Affairs, Department of Natural Resources, Veterans Affairs
Common questions
- What is SB114?
- SB114 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2025 General Session): Veteran Access to State Parks.
- What does SB114 do?
- This bill addresses a program that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks for qualified veterans.
- What is the status of SB114?
- Failed as of March 7, 2025. Latest action: Senate/ filed (March 7, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB114?
- Karen Kwan (D, 12), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB114?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0114.html
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