Status Enacted — signed into law
Bill file · 2026 General Session
H.B. 507
State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments
Origin Utah House · 2026 General Session · Introduced Feb. 6, 2026
Sponsors
Sponsor Calvin Roberts
Floor sponsor Kirk Cullimore
History · from the official record
- Introduced in the House House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Recommended by House committee House Comm - Substitute Recommendation (7-1-2)
- Passed the House House/ passed 3rd reading (69-1-5)
- Received in the Senate Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Recommended by Senate committee Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation (3-0-3)
- Passed the Senate Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension (22-2-5)
- Sent to the Governor House/ to Governor
- Signed by the Governor Governor Signed
Record: le.utah.gov
Also touches: Cut Income & Business Taxes Data Centers & AI Growth Data Centers, Power & Ratepayers Development Districts & Public Financing Energy Independence Transparency & Anti-Corruption
Every topic this act touches
- Cut Income & Business Taxes
- Data Centers & AI Growth Barred local tax-increment incentives to large load data centers starting May 6, 2027, with exceptions.
- Data Centers, Power & Ratepayers Let counties levy an energy excise tax of up to 6% on large load customers and qualifying data centers on unincorporated land.
- Development Districts & Public Financing Created regionally significant development zones that capture property tax increment and let their agencies issue bonds.
- Energy Independence Narrowed the bar on county and city incentives for baseload power projects outside energy development zones to nuclear projects.
- Transparency & Anti-Corruption Let confidential economic development information, including nondisclosure agreements, be withheld as protected records.