Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 466 (2022GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Winder, M.

Final action

House/ filed 3/4/2022

Outcome

Failed / filed without passage

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• requires a municipality and a special service district to conduct a feasibility study every ten years if the special service district's service area is contained within the municipality's boundaries.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT STUDY
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Mike Winder
Senate Sponsor: 
 Wayne A. Harper
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill requires a municipality and a special service district to conduct a feasibility
study in certain circumstances.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ requires a municipality and a special service district to conduct a feasibility study
every ten years if the special service district's service area is contained within the
municipality's boundaries.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
ENACTS:
17D-1-605
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
17D-1-605
 is enacted to read:
 17D-1-605.
Feasibility study for a special service district.
(1) If the service area of a special service district is contained within the boundaries of
a municipality, the special service district and the municipality shall conduct a feasibility study
to determine if the municipality can provide the services that the special service district offers
at a lower cost than the special service district.
(2) The feasibility study shall consider:
(a) the municipality's capacity to provide services at a level and quality that fairly and
reasonably approximates the level and quality of services being provided by the special service
district at the time of the feasibility study;
(b) the municipality's capacity to increase services to align with projected growth in the
municipality;
(c) the costs of transferring the provision of services from the special service district to
the municipality; and
(d) the costs for the municipality to provide the service compared to the costs of the
special service district to provide the service.
(3) A special service district and a municipality required to conduct a feasibility study
as described in Subsections (1) and (2) shall hire a feasibility consultant to conduct an initial
feasibility study no later than January 1, 2023, and a feasibility study every ten years after
January 1, 2023.
(4) The legislative body of the municipality and, if the municipality has created an
administrative control board pursuant to Section 
17D-1-301
, the administrative control board
of the special service district shall:
(a) select a feasibility consultant;
(b) share the cost of the feasibility study; and
(c) require the feasibility consultant to present the findings of the feasibility study in a
public meeting of the municipality's legislative body and a public meeting of the special service
district's administrative control board.