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Checking In At The Legislature:
November 2021 Update

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In This Issue:

  • November Special Session Highlights
  • Women in the Legislature
  • Two press conferences on Clean Fuels in Utah, including the announcement for 2 Hydrogen refueling stations in Utah next year
  • Podcast with SLCC VP Tim Sheehan on education, corrections, and being a legislator in Utah

November Special Session highlights:

  1. Workplace COVID-19 Amendments require an employer to relieve an employee of a COVID-19 vaccination mandate if receiving the vaccine would injure their health and well-being, conflict with religious beliefs, practice, or observance, or conflict with a personal belief. In addition, the bill requires an employer to pay for COVID-19 workplace testing and prohibits adverse action against an employee who claims relief.
  2. Redistricting: The final maps were the most collaborated redistricting maps ever created in the history of Utah because of modern technology. The legislature doesn’t have a marketing firm to communicate the process taken during redistricting, but for the first time, every legislator, Republican, and Democrat, was able to give input on the maps. All Democrat seats were preserved, with one House District with two Republicans in a runoff and one House District with one Republican and one Democrat in a runoff. Democrat legislators were part of the process and approved all maps except the Congressional map. Demographics were not part of the mapping, but rural and urban needs were considered, with counties and city lines preserved in all maps as much as possible.
  3. Renaming Dixie State University to Utah Tech: To see the process taken to change Dixie State’s name, visit this link https://dixie.edu/nameprocess/.

Women in the Utah Legislature

I love serving with these women!
L-R Susan Pulsipher, me, Judy Weeks-Roehner, Marsha Judkins, Karianne Lisonbee, Kera Birkeland, Cheryl Acton, Christine Watkins, Candice Pierucci

Education Interim meetings with (D) Karen Kwan, (D) Jen Dailey-Provost, me, (R) Kera Birkeland, (D) Kathleen Riebe, (R) Christine Watkins, (R) Judy Weeks-Roehner

Two press conferences on Clean Fuels: Utah Aims to be the Hydrogen Hub of the Crossroads of the West announcing two hydrogen refueling stations in Utah 2022

  1. To read Why Utah aims to be the 'hydrogen hub for the crossroads of the West,' click here. To watch Press Conference on clean fuels and applications in Utah, click here.  
  2. To watch a press conference with Lancer Energy, Mo Vargas CEO Bayotech, Myself, Executive Directors Tammie Bostick of Utah Clean Cities, Kim Frost of Utah Clean Air Partnership - UCAIR, and Jack Hedge of Utah Inland Port, click here.
Press Conference at the Capitol with Craig Bickmore, Mike Sonntag, Senator Hinkins, Rep Handy, Roxana Bekemohammadi, United States Hydrogen Alliance; Jessica Elwell, OxEon Energy; Sarah Hunt, Rainey Center; Dory Peters, Big Navajo Energy; Scott Brandeberry, Lancer Energy; Tammie Bostick, Utah Clean Cities; Kim Frost, UCAIR; Jack Hedge, Utah Inland Port Authority

Podcast with SLCC VP Tim Sheehan on education, corrections, and being a legislator in Utah

Listen to the podcast here! 
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