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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Amendments you'll be voting on in 2020


What’s on my ballot? You can get more details about these amendment  proposals by going to https://voteinfo.utah.gov  RCTonline would also like to hear from people who have opinions on these amendments.

Constitutional Amendment A (page 42)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to change words that apply to a single gender (such as the word “men”) to words that are not limited to a single gender such as the word"Persons"?

Constitutional Amendment B (page 45)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to specify that certain requirements that a person must meet to be eligible for the office of senator or representative in the Utah Legislature apply at the time the person is elected or appointed?

Constitutional Amendment C (page 47)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to make the following changes to the Utah Constitution’s ban on slavery and involuntary servitude:

• remove the language that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime; and

• clarify that the ban does not affect the otherwise lawful administration of the criminal justice system?

Constitutional Amendment D (page 49)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:

• rewrite a provision relating to municipal water rights and sources of water supply;

• allow a municipality to define the boundary of the municipality’s water service area and to set the terms of water service for that area;

• state that a municipality is not prevented from:

• supplying water to water users outside the municipality’s boundary; or

• entering into a contract to supply water outside the municipality’s water service area if the water is more  than what is needed for the municipality’s water service area; and

• modify the basis upon which a municipality is allowed to exchange water rights or sources of water supply?

Constitutional Amendment E (page 52)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:

• preserve the individual right to hunt and to fish, including the right to use traditional hunting and fishing methods subject to certain regulation; and

• establish public hunting and fishing as the preferred way of managing and controlling wildlife?

Constitutional Amendment F (page 56)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:

• change when annual general sessions of the Utah Legislature begin from the fourth Monday in January to a day in January designated by a law passed by the Utah Legislature; and 

• exclude state holidays that are not also federal holidays from counting towards the maximum number of days of the Utah Legislature’s annual general sessions?

Constitutional Amendment G (page 59)

Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to expand the uses of money the state receives from income taxes and intangible property taxes to include supporting children and supporting people with a disability?


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