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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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.
5 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 Any citation to section 68-3-12.5(42) for the definition of veteran is now out of date.
▲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.
=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.
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