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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah Bill HB 282 Reduces Sales Tax Allocation to Transportation Investment Fund
Last action · March 6, 2026: House/ filedSponsor: Jen Dailey-Provost
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill reduces a sales and use tax earmark that directs revenue into the Transportation Investment Fund of 2005.
The measure shifts millions of dollars in recurring state sales tax revenue away from dedicated highway and transit development and into general state revenues, altering how transportation projects are funded versus general government operations.
- The Transportation Investment Fund of 2005 is a dedicated state fund in Utah used to finance highway and transit construction projects across the state. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Transportation Investment Fund of 2005
Receives a smaller percentage of designated state sales and use tax revenue under the amended formula.
General Fund
Retains a larger share of state sales and use tax revenue due to the reduced transportation earmark.
Key Facts
- The bill reduces the sales and use tax earmark directed into the Transportation Investment Fund of 2005 from 26.24% to 19.24%.
- The revenue difference resulting from the lowered earmark is retained in the state General Fund.
- No money is appropriated by this bill.
- The statute being amended is Utah Code Section 59-12-103.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
20 actions- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ strike enacting clause
- Mar 5, 2026HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- Mar 2, 2026HouseHouse Comm - Recommends Returned to Rules
- Jan 29, 2026HouseHouse Comm - Held
- Jan 28, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0282S01
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- Jan 28, 2026HouseCommitteeHouse/ to standing committee
- Jan 28, 2026House Rules CommitteeBill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- Jan 28, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0282S01
- Jan 24, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0282S01
- Jan 24, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0282S01
- Jan 21, 2026HouseHouse/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- Jan 20, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0282
- Jan 20, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0282
- Jan 20, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Jan 20, 2026HouseHouse/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Jan 19, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0282
- Jan 19, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0282
- Jan 19, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Jan 19, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Reduction of Dedicated Transportation Earmark
The bill systematically lowers the percentage allocation to the Transportation Investment Fund of 2005, reversing previous earmark expansions and prioritizing general fund retention.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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