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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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.
2 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 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.
▲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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