Legislative bills stacking up as 2021 session approaches

Utah lawmakers have requested more than 740 bills to date in preparation for January’s legislative session and, if past patterns hold, they’ll add 100 or more by the time the opening gavel comes down.Some among the 104 legislators are far more prolific than average on the bill-sponsoring front to the point that, in 2018, the Legislature created an individual bill tracker to discourage what some leaders saw as an excessive abuse of process.Utah lawmakers have generally filed more than