Kirk A. Cullimore

Presented S.B. 226, Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Amendments, and moved its second substitute out of the Utah Senate Business and Labor Standing Committee favorably.

February 14, 2025Supports AI Regulation

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Voted for House Bill 76, which requires large data centers to report their water use. The law covers a data center that draws 75 acre-feet of water a year or more. Before a city or county approves a new one, it must notify the water suppliers that would serve it. From July 1, 2026, the operator of a new large data center must report its water use to the state before building and every year after. Some details may be kept private as business secrets, and an operator that fails to report can be penalized. The Utah Senate passed it 19-5 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 185, which sets up a fund the attorney general may use to try to stop federal climate rules. That means any rule that would make Utah join a cap-and-trade plan, report carbon pollution, pay for climate cleanup, or face climate claims. The fund gets money the state wins in carbon credit lawsuits, plus any money lawmakers add. State agencies must also report each carbon credit they sell. The Utah Senate passed it 19-6 and it was signed into law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 234, which limits how strict Utah's environmental health rules can be. A state agency may not start a rule that sets a number limit on a pollutant in drinking water, air, or waste that is stricter than a federal standard on the same subject. Where there is no federal standard, the limit must rest on the best available science. Such a rule, if meant to protect health, must also show a direct link between exposure and a present illness or injury in people. A higher risk of disease is not enough. Emergency rules, rules that federal law requires, and site-specific rules that state law requires are exempt. The Utah Senate passed it 20-7 and it was signed into law.

February 23, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 60, which narrows the reasons Utah's state engineer may use to turn down a request for a new water right. To judge harm to the public, the engineer may now look only at how the plan affects the use, amount, quality, or supply of water, plus factors a law names. The engineer may not turn down a request over a harm that another agency is better placed to handle, or one that is small. Protests count only if they speak to those points. Only a person who would be hurt in a direct, personal way may ask a court to review a decision. The Utah Senate passed it 18-7 and it was signed into law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 222, which shields people and companies from lawsuits over climate change. No one may be held liable, in a civil or a criminal case, for harm from any effect on the climate caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The only exception is when a court finds clear and convincing evidence that they broke a state limit on emissions or the terms of their permit. Before, a narrower shield covered only people living or doing business in Utah. Now it covers anyone, and bars every kind of court remedy. The Utah Senate passed it 20-6 and it was signed into law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 355, which widens what sand, gravel, and rock quarries may do over the objection of local government. A quarry that has been running legally now counts as a vested use, and the old cutoff of January 1, 2019 is gone. A vested quarry may spread onto next-door land it held by 2026. It may dig more, change its methods, and mix concrete and asphalt. A city or county cannot simply say no. It may step in only if it finds that an expansion puts public health or safety at risk. Even then it may ask only for steps no stricter than a state permit, and the quarry may accept them and go ahead. The act also puts the burden of proof on whoever argues that a quarry is not vested. The Utah Senate passed it 17-7 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 402, which bars public schools from selling, giving out, or serving food on school grounds during the school day if it holds any of nine additives, starting in the 2026-2027 school year. The list covers potassium bromate, propylparaben, and seven artificial colors, among them Red No. 3 and Yellow No. 5. A parent may still bring those foods in for students, and a teacher may hand them out with permission from the students' parents at the start of each semester. The limits do not reach concession stands at school events or vending machines, and they do not apply at a charter school or district with 5,500 students or fewer. The Utah Senate passed it 16-6 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 119, which limits how far a homeowners association may go in blocking rooftop solar. Before this act, the recorded rules of a neighborhood could ban solar panels outright on a detached house. The act takes that power away. An association may still add a new ban, but only if at least 67 percent of owners vote for it, and it now takes only 51 percent of owners to change a ban that is already in place. An association may still set rules on the size and placement of a system, so long as the rules cut its output or raise its cost by no more than 5 percent. The Utah Senate passed it 19-10 and it was signed into law.

March 4, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 327, which said the state law protecting the right to bargain as a group covers private-sector workers. It also set the definitions for House Bill 267's ban on union contracts for public workers. The Utah Senate passed it 19-5 and it was signed into law. It was tied to House Bill 267, which lawmakers repealed in a December 2025 special session.

March 7, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 267, which barred state and local governments, including school districts, from bargaining with unions for public workers or signing union contracts. It also barred using public money or property to help unions. Unions paid through payroll had to report their spending each year. The Utah Senate passed it 16-13 and it was signed into law. Lawmakers repealed it in a December 2025 special session.

February 6, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 540, which requires the courts to build one website where the public can search all public court records, starting in 2027. Users must register, and the courts may charge only after 50 searches or 50 downloads in a month. The act also requires audio recordings of public court hearings outside justice courts, which people may request. Judges must file yearly financial disclosures that the public can see. The Utah Senate passed it 20-6 and it was signed into law.

March 4, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 226, which requires county jails and the state prison to tell U.S. immigration agents before they let out someone who is in the country unlawfully after a sentence for a felony or some other serious crimes. They must also help hand the person over to federal custody. It also says being here unlawfully is a sign a person may flee, when a court decides on release before trial. The Utah Senate passed it 21-8 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 136, which requires police to tow a car when the driver has no license and the officer cannot confirm one was issued, with some exceptions. Officers must take a quick fingerprint of a driver they cannot identify. A second offense of driving without a license becomes a misdemeanor. The state's fee to get back a towed car rises from $425 to $600. The Utah Senate passed it 20-6 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 48, which lets a court send a teen convicted of aggravated murder to an adult prison instead of a youth lockup. This applies if the teen was 17 at the time of the crime, is at least 18 at sentencing, and would be a danger to others in the youth lockup. A prosecutor may also ask the parole board to move such a person to adult prison. The act also has state agencies report wider measures of how often people return to crime. The Utah Senate passed it 20-7 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 331, which renames the crime of threatening terrorism to terrorism and makes it cover acts carried out, not just threats. It makes it a crime to commit a crime to help a foreign terrorist group, or to act unlawfully as an agent of a foreign government. It also bans wearing a mask to hide from police while committing a crime in public, or while with others the person knows are doing so. Three or more people who block someone from a house of worship to stop them from practicing their religion commit a felony. The Utah Senate passed it 21-6 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 207, which toughens sentences for repeat sex offenders. When a person with an earlier sex crime conviction is convicted again, both the minimum and the maximum sentence now rise by five years for each earlier conviction. The whole sentence must be served in prison, with no probation. The act also ends the lower penalty for sharing child sexual abuse material that shows a teen 14 or older, so it is a first degree felony in every case. And it makes it a crime to access such material, or to keep access to it, with the intent to view it. The Utah Senate passed it 16-10 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 436, which gives a city that files a state housing report extra priority for state road money if its housing grew by 2.5% or more in the past year, as counted by new occupancy permits. The priority can go to a major regional road project inside or outside the city. The total boost to any project's ranking is capped at 7%. The Utah Senate passed it 20-8 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 37, which adds new ways for a Utah city to meet the state's moderate income housing rules. A city may now grant a density bonus for homes that people own and live in, both for single houses and for apartments. When it does, it may attach conditions, such as reserving most of the homes for owner-occupiers for five years, keeping a quarter of them affordable, or giving local buyers a first look for up to 30 days. Joining the state's home investment program also now counts as one of the housing steps a city can take. The act separately lowers the number of people needed to form a new town from 100 to 75. The Utah Senate passed it 22-6 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 403, which orders the Utah Department of Workforce Services to ask the federal government for permission to stop people from using food stamps to buy soft drinks. The act counts a sweetened fizzy drink as a soft drink. It leaves out drinks with milk in them and drinks that are more than half juice. The department had to file the request by July 1, 2025. If the request is granted, the state must act within six months. If it is refused, the state must file again within three months, and then once a year until it is granted. Nothing changes for shoppers unless the federal government agrees. The Utah Senate passed it 15-13 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 84, which lets adults 21 and older carry a hidden gun at a college without a permit, if they may lawfully own a gun. It also bars carrying a gun in the open on a campus. People with a permit may not carry in the open at a school either, unless they are responding to an active threat. The crime of carrying a weapon at a college now covers only open carry, and the penalty drops from a class A to a class C misdemeanor. The Utah Senate passed it 18-5 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 214, which makes it harder to sue gun makers and sellers when someone misuses a gun. A claim must fit one of a short list of exceptions and must spell out in detail what the company knew and how it caused the harm. A claim that a company broke a gun law now works only if that was the sole direct cause of the harm. A company that wins dismissal gets its legal fees paid. Cities and counties may not create their own liability for gun misuse, and the shield now covers gun accessories too. The Utah Senate passed it 19-6 and it was signed into law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 174, which lets health care workers refuse to take part in any service that goes against their religious beliefs or conscience, such as birth control, abortion, or gender transition care. Employers may not punish them for it. A provider who refuses must post a notice that points patients to a state list of others who offer the service. Emergency care rules still apply. The Utah Senate passed it 22-7 and it was signed into law.

March 2, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House Bill 233, which bars a public school that gets state money from letting any group that performs elective abortions, or its staff or partner groups, teach any health lesson. Such groups also may not supply health materials they made, paid for, donated, or branded. The state school board may fine a school system that breaks the rule. The Utah Senate passed it 18-8 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 153, which made most voter records that had been private become public on May 25, 2026. A voter can keep a record private only by proving they are at risk, such as a victim of domestic violence or a police officer. The voter list may be used only for political and other lawful purposes, and misuse is a crime. Clerks must also remove dead voters within five work days of notice. The Utah Senate passed it 22-7 and it was signed into law.

March 4, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 263, which makes the video of ballot processing a public record. Before this act, only a short list of officials could watch it. Election officers must now keep the paperwork that tracks where ballots have been for as long as they keep the ballots. They must also publish a count of the ballots they sent out and got back, broken down by how each one was sent and returned. County councils and other government bodies may look at electronic copies of ballots and envelopes. They must do so at the county clerk's office and may not take copies away. The Utah Senate passed it 19-6 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 300, which requires a voter who mails in a ballot to write the last four digits of a Utah driver license, state ID, or Social Security number on the envelope. Starting in 2029, voters get a mail ballot only if they ask for one. A request can last up to eight years. The state must also join a federal program that checks immigration status, and look for address problems on voter rolls. The Utah Senate passed it 19-10 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Senate Bill 60, which cuts Utah's income tax rate for people and for companies from 4.5 percent to 4.45 percent, starting with the 2026 tax year. The Utah Senate passed it 22-7 and it was signed into law.

February 10, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 106, which cuts Utah's income tax rate for people and for companies from 4.55 percent to 4.5 percent, starting with the 2025 tax year. It widens the state's $1,000 child tax credit to cover every child under six. Before, it covered only children aged one through four. It also gives employers a tax credit worth 20 percent of the cost of building child care for their workers, plus 10 percent of running costs once they have claimed the building credit. An employer must pay back some or all of it if the center closes within five years. The Utah Senate passed it 23-6 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 357, which extends Utah's consumer privacy law to carmakers. For model year 2030 and later, a carmaker must give owners controls inside the car to manage what personal data it collects and shares, unless a model is not able to. A carmaker may also offer an app or a website, but may not make owners use one. Data needed for safety, such as airbags and crash avoidance, can still be collected without consent. The state's motor vehicle office must post owners' privacy rights online. The Utah Senate passed it 19-10 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for House Bill 259, which gives parents the right to see all of their minor child's medical records, with a few exceptions such as sexual assault counseling. Hospitals and clinics may not block parents from a child's online records. They face a $1,000 fine for each record not handed over within five business days, and starting in 2028 a $1,000 fine for each day they block online access. The Utah Senate passed it 22-6 and it was signed into law.

March 5, 2026Opposes Data Privacy

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Voted for House Bill 204, which requires public colleges to excuse a student from a test or task in a required course when it clashes with the student's sincere religious or moral beliefs. The only exception is when the change would undercut the course's core goals. A neutral reviewer decides when a teacher says no. Teachers also may not make students publicly take a side on a political or social issue as their own. The Utah Senate passed it 17-5 and it was signed into law.

March 6, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 174, which ends the path that let some minors start cross-sex hormones under a state approval process. Starting in January 2027, doctors may not give the hormones to a minor who was under 16 when the law took effect or who had not already started them. Doctors may still help a minor stop treatment. The Utah Senate passed it 20-6 and it was signed into law.

February 27, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 404, which lets landlords, including private owners of dorms, boarding houses, and shared rentals, set aside housing for one sex where tenants share a bedroom or bathroom. They may limit it to people of that sex at birth, and Utah's fair housing law no longer counts this as unlawful bias. The rule does not cover housing run by state or local governments. The Utah Senate passed it 19-7 and it was signed into law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 68, which lets a Utah person or business that is sued over a website disabled people cannot use sue back if the first lawsuit was abusive. A suit counts as abusive if its main aim was to get paid rather than to fix the website. The law presumes abuse if the business tried in good faith to fix the problem within 30 days of a detailed notice, or fixed it within 90 days. A court may award legal fees, plus punitive damages and sanctions of up to three times those fees. The attorney general may bring the claim. The law ends in 2031. The Utah Senate passed it 20-6 and it was signed into law.

February 17, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 390, which bars a public college from treating a student group worse because the group is religious or political, or because of its views. That includes denying it meeting space or funding. A college also may not punish such a group for requiring its leaders to share its beliefs or follow its rules. The Utah Senate passed it 21-6 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 477, which says that speaking at a school board meeting cannot by itself show the intent to annoy that the school trespass law requires. That holds so long as the comment follows the board's own rules on time, place, manner, and staying on topic. It also narrows what counts as school property for that crime. The law now reaches a school itself, and no longer reaches the offices or other property of a school district or charter school. The Utah Senate passed it 17-7 and it was signed into law.

March 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 252, which bars county jails, state prisons, and youth custody from starting cross-sex hormones or sex-change surgery for people in their care. It also bars starting puberty blockers for minors in youth custody. They may still offer counseling and other mental health care, and youth lockups must house boys and girls separately. The Utah Senate passed it 19-6 and it was signed into law.

February 20, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 269, which requires public colleges to assign students to single-sex dorm units by their sex at birth, with an original birth certificate as proof. Colleges may still offer units that are unisex or for one person. It also drops medical records as proof that a person may use a restroom or locker room set aside for one sex. Schools now accept only an original birth certificate; public changing rooms still accept an amended one with proof of surgery. The Utah Senate passed it 20-7 and it was signed into law.

February 6, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Presented S.B. 267, Software in Education Amendments, to the Utah Senate Education Standing Committee, which passed a substitute recommendation.

February 19, 2026

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Presented S.B. 226, Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Amendments, and moved its second substitute out of the Utah Senate Business and Labor Standing Committee favorably.

February 14, 2025

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Presented S.B. 250, Community Development Modifications, and moved its first substitute out of the Utah Senate Revenue and Taxation Standing Committee favorably.

February 12, 2025

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