Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
8 instruments in Utah. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsTreats 501(c)(19) veterans organizations as charitable entities for sales tax, state donation and other provisions.
Amended Utah Code section 68-3-12.5, subsection 8 so that the terms "charitable", "nonprofit" and "not-for-profit", in relation to an entity, include an entity exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) or (19) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 501(c)(19) is the veterans organization exemption, so American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and similar posts now fall inside every Utah provision that turns on those words unless a statute excludes them. The bill’s long title describes the consequences: eligibility to claim a sales and use tax exemption for sales derived from the organization’s charitable activities under section 59-12-104.1, to receive excess contributions from individuals and entities subject to campaign contribution limits, to obtain donations from state agencies and assist state agencies in administering relief programs, and to acquire conservation easements. Twenty-one sections were amended in all, including section 68-3-12.5 itself, sections 20A-11-201 through 20A-11-1301 on campaign finance, section 35A-3-312, section 57-18-3, section 59-12-104.1 and section 63A-2-404. Tracked because the amendment to section 68-3-12.5 also renumbered the definition of "veteran" from subsection 42 to subsection 43 without changing a word of it, so a comparison of code versions across the 2026 session shows the veteran definition as amended when only its number moved. Any citation to section 68-3-12.5(42) for the definition of veteran is now out of date.
=No change to benefitsDirects a funding-dependent clinical study and creates no entitlement to treatment.
Enacted Utah Code section 26B-7-126, directing the Huntsman Mental Health Institute within the University of Utah to conduct a clinical study of the safety and feasibility of psychedelic-assisted therapy, using MDMA, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine or psilocybin, for the treatment of treatment-resistant PTSD in eligible veterans. An eligible veteran is one with a clinical PTSD diagnosis and a documented inadequate response to one or more evidence-based treatments; the section does not require the PTSD to be service-connected. The study must run under an FDA investigational new drug application, a Drug Enforcement Administration Schedule I research registration and Institutional Review Board approval, with a protocol, drug administration plan, safety monitoring and risk management plan including predefined rules for pausing or stopping the study, and a psychotherapy fidelity plan. Tracked and watching because the duty to begin is conditional: subsection 4 requires the institute to start no later than January 1, 2027 only if legislative appropriations plus gifts, grants and donations reach an amount the institute itself determines is sufficient, and subsection 5 provides that if they do not, the institute begins whenever they do. Unused donations must be returned to donors on or before July 1, 2032. This creates no entitlement to participate and is not a treatment programme, and it will be described as one.
Sponsor
Jennifer Dailey-ProvostDemocratic, House, District 22
▲Expands benefitsRaises the Purple Heart graduate tuition waiver cap from $10,000 to $15,000 and removes the ten-year deadline to start graduate study.
Amended Utah Code section 53H-11-303, the Purple Heart tuition waiver, and did two things. It raised the cap in what is now subsection 3, paragraph "b" from $10,000 to $15,000 of total graduate tuition waived. And it struck the old paragraph (b) entirely, which had read: "To qualify for a graduate tuition waiver, a Purple Heart recipient shall apply for a graduate program no later than 10 years from the day on which the Purple Heart recipient completes an undergraduate degree." The bill’s own long title describes it as removing "a provision related to a Purple Heart recipient applying for a graduate program waiver" and increasing "the limit for a tuition waiver". The five-year limit on the duration of a graduate waiver, the undergraduate waiver with no cap, and the exclusion of fees are all unchanged. Tracked because the repeal of the ten-year rule reopens the graduate waiver to every Utah Purple Heart recipient whose undergraduate degree is more than a decade behind them, which is most of them, and because a recipient refused on that ground before the May 6, 2026 effective date should ask again rather than assume the refusal still stands.
▲Expands benefitsRequires the licensing division to identify military training and credit it toward Utah professional licences.
Enacted Utah Code section 58-1-313, requiring the Division of Professional Licensing, in consultation with the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, to identify skills, experience, credentials, training and education obtainable in the armed forces, determine to what level they are substantially equivalent to Utah licence requirements and can substitute for them, and "prepare and update as necessary a document, spreadsheet, or other resource accessible by the public on the division’s website" detailing both. Subsection 3 then provides that where a veteran or service member applies for a licence and does not meet the required training or education, the division "shall give credit" based on that determination. The act also amended section 71A-1-201 to add the consultation duty to the department’s responsibilities, and amended section 63I-2-258 to repeal subsection 58-1-313(4), the reporting duty, on January 1, 2029, with the report itself due on or before November 1, 2028. Tracked and flagged for two reasons. The benefit is measured entirely by a resource the division must publish, so until that resource covers a given occupation there is no substantial-equivalence determination for subsection 3 to operate on. And the sunset reaches only the reporting subsection, so a description of this benefit as expiring in 2029 has read the repeal onto the wrong provision.
=No change to benefitsRenumbers every veteran higher education benefit from Title 53B into Title 53H without changing its substance.
Renumbered Utah’s higher education provisions out of Title 53B and into a new Title 53H, carrying with them every veteran and survivor education benefit in the state. Resident student status, which contains the clause granting a veteran resident tuition "regardless of whether the military veteran served in Utah", moved to section 53H-11-202. The Purple Heart tuition waiver became section 53H-11-303, the Scott B. Lundell Military Survivors’ tuition waiver section 53H-11-308, the surplus-space enrolment provision for senior citizens and veterans section 53H-11-304, the Veterans Tuition Gap Program section 53H-11-413, credit for military service and training section 53H-3-703, and community college enrolment preference for veterans section 53H-3-1103. Tracked because the renumbering is invisible in the substance of any of those benefits and total in its effect on citations: every guide, institutional web page and departmental document citing chapter 53B-8 or 53B-13c for a Utah veteran education benefit now points at a repealed location. Two of the renumbered sections were then amended in the 2026 general session, section 53H-11-202 by chapter 180 and section 53H-11-303 by chapter 230, so the current text of both is later than the renumbering.
▲Expands benefitsRequires anyone helping with a VA claim to be accredited and give a written disclosure, and bars fees federal law does not allow.
Chapter 231 of the 2025 general session rewrote Utah Code sections 71A-4-102 through 71A-4-105, producing the current regime: anyone offering to help a veteran apply for VA benefits must be VA-accredited, must give a written disclosure on a department-approved retainable form stating among other things "that there is no charge to the claimant or a member of the claimant’s family for assistance with the initial benefits application", may not strike out or mark nonapplicable any provision of that form, must have it signed by both parties, must retain it three years, must give the veteran a copy the same day and the department a copy within five working days, and must document any permitted fee in a written agreement complying with 38 C.F.R. 14.636 before rendering services. Subsection 7 prohibits compensation except as federal law permits, referral fees, compensation for services rendered before a notice of disagreement, decision review or appeal is filed whichever comes first, guarantees of a specific level, percentage or amount of benefits, and excessive or unreasonable fees. Subsection 8 lets the Division of Consumer Protection accept complaints and bring an action under the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act. Chapter 95 of the 2026 general session then amended section 71A-4-101 to add a definition of "non-compliant referral" and to provide that "‘Veteran’ includes all eligible dependents". Tracked because the 2026 amendment extends the whole chapter’s protections to dependents, which matters for the surviving spouse and pension cases that unaccredited consultants target, and because section 71A-4-104 requires the department to notify the Insurance Department, the Utah State Bar and the Department of Health and Human Services every three years, with health and human services required to notify all assisted living and nursing care facilities.
=No change to benefitsRenumbers the veteran and active duty property tax exemptions into chapter 59-2a; the veteran exemption is carried over unchanged.
Renumbered Utah’s property tax relief provisions into a new Title 59, Chapter 2a. The veteran with a disability exemption, long cited as sections 59-2-1903 and 59-2-1904, became sections 59-2a-501 and 59-2a-502 in a new Part 5, Veteran Armed Forces Exemption. The active duty exemption became Part 6, with section 59-2a-601, Active duty armed forces exemption amount, enacted fresh by this chapter rather than renumbered, and section 59-2a-602 renumbered and amended. The definitions, including the adjusted taxable value limit that indexes the exemption from a 2023 base of $479,504 and the 200-day qualifying active duty military service test, are now in section 59-2a-101, and the deadline extension and refund provision is section 59-2a-108. Tracked and flagged because county application forms have not all followed: the Davis County veteran with a disability exemption application is headed "UCA 59-2-1903 and 1904", which are the pre-recodification numbers. A veteran comparing a county form, a published guide and the current code will see three different citations for one benefit. The substance of the veteran exemption was carried over, so this is a numbering change rather than a change in entitlement, but every secondary source citing chapter 59-2 for these exemptions is now citing a repealed location.
▲Expands benefitsOpens free state park admission to a Utah veteran with any service-connected disability rating.
Enacted Utah Code section 79-4-1002, requiring the Division of State Parks to make rules granting free admission to state parks to an honorably discharged veteran who is a Utah resident and "has a current service-connected disability rating issued by the United States Veterans Benefits Administration". The section names no minimum percentage, so any current rating qualifies, which makes it the only Utah benefit in this catalog with no disability floor at all. Chapter 153 of the 2025 general session then enacted section 79-4-207, subsection 2, paragraph "b", separately requiring the division to implement the programme. Tracked and flagged because the operative detail is entirely administrative and is in flux. The division implements the statute as the Veterans With Disabilities Honor Pass, covering day-use admission for the veteran and up to seven guests travelling in the same vehicle but excluding camping, neither of which appears in the statute. As of September 2026 the division states the pass system "is currently undergoing digital upgrades" with access remaining active, 2025 passes still valid, and new applicants able to present VA documentation at park gates; the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs describes a replacement pass as "pending final federal approval" and states a VA Summary of Benefits letter will remain a valid entry method after the new pass launches. Separately, the division’s own page at stateparks.utah.gov/resources/military/ currently issues a permanent redirect to a staging server rather than the production site.
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