"2024 Utah Legislature: Key Bills and Impacts on Daily Life"

The Utah Legislature passed a record 591 bills, allocating nearly $2 billion for new sports arenas, increasing school funding and tax cuts, passing anti-transgender legislation, dismantling diversity programs, encouraging more educators to carry guns, restricting books in schools, and making elected officials' calendars secret. They also invested $2 billion in public financing for downtown sports stadiums, hoping to attract Major League Baseball and National Hockey League teams, while making minimal changes to election laws and passing a bill to ignore federal laws they believe are unconstitutional.