Kirk Cullimore is a Republican state senator from Utah who has represented District 19 and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election against Democrat Shana Anderson.[1]An attorney, he has served as Senate majority leader since January 2025.[1]
Kirk Cullimore earned an associate degree from Utah Valley University in 1997, a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 2000, and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2008.[1]His professional experience includes work as an attorney.[1]
Cullimore was first elected to the Utah State Senate in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022.[1]In 2021 he sponsored SB 2004, which allowed employees to opt out of an employer's vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons or for a "sincerely held personal belief"; Gov. Spencer Cox signed it on November 16, 2021.[1]Ballotpedia reports that Cullimore said the Legislature's 2025 priorities would include energy, the economy and housing.[1]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Republicans voted. How topics are assigned
›Jobs & cost of living137 with · 5 against142 votes
This bill modifies and enacts provisions related to municipal and county fees. This bill: defines terms; prohibits a city from imposing a fee on the general public for broadband or public safety service, with exceptions; prohibits a town from imposing a fee on the general public for public safety service, with exceptions; authorizes a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee if the municipality or county complies with certain requirements; establishes a process and requirements for a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee; provides that property…
This bill amends provisions relating to alcohol. This bill: defines terms; permits a local government to authorize an outlet or restaurant with an alcohol license to be in proximity to a public park under certain conditions; clarifies the Alcoholic Beverage Services Commission's authority when granting or denying an application for a retail license; provides that a hotel may serve spirituous liquor in a container that is not the spirituous liquor's original container; provides that a patron of a facility with multiple licenses may transport beer between the premises under certain conditions;…
This bill modifies provisions related to property tax. This bill: defines terms; prohibits taxpayers from receiving the homeowner's credit unless the taxpayer received the credit within the previous two years, beginning in 2026; removes requirements for annual inflation adjustments for the homeowner's credit; increases the household income limits and maximum credit amounts allowed for a renter's credit; changes the qualifications, scope, duration, and rates of interest applicable to the discretionary and nondiscretionary property tax deferral programs; prohibits taxpayers from receiving…
Feb 24, 2025 · Passed 15–10 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill modifies provisions relating to the Supreme Court. This bill: modifies provisions governing the membership and internal management of the Supreme Court; provides that the governor shall appoint a chief justice of the Supreme Court (chief justice) when a vacancy in the office occurs; modifies provisions related to an interim chief justice and appointment procedures; requires that a governor's selection for chief justice is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate; and makes conforming changes.
Feb 28, 2025 · Passed 17–12 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill modifies provisions related to law enforcement and criminal justice. This bill: requires that counties offering probation services adopt certain probation standards and practices; modifies definitions; provides that the Office of State Debt Collection has the authority to collect civil accounts receivable or a civil judgment of restitution and interest thereon; provides that administrative garnishments also apply to a debtor's property or wages that are under control of a third party; requires the Office of State Debt Collection to provide an accounting of the unpaid balance of a…
This resolution urges the Governor to review Utah's designation of the Disability Law Center as the state's Protection and Advocacy agency to ensure that all individuals with disabilities, regardless of type or functional capacity, receive equitable advocacy and representation.
Feb 20, 2026 · Passed 16–10 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill enacts provisions related to federal contracts and settlement agreements with a local education agency. This bill: prohibits a local education agency from contracting with the United States Department of Justice unless the attorney general's office reviews the contract or settlement agreement; requires the attorney general's office to review each proposed contract or settlement agreement; and allows the Utah State Board of Education and the attorney general's office to make recommendations regarding the contract or settlement agreement.
This bill modifies provisions relating to educator license discipline and restrictions on employment and volunteer service. This bill: amends provisions relating to ineligibility for educator licensure following license denial; establishes a tiered framework for restrictions on employment and volunteer service following license suspension or revocation; requires automatic restrictions for serious misconduct involving actual harm or credible risk to children; requires written findings demonstrating specific risk for restrictions in other cases; exempts technical violations from automatic work…
This bill amends the Excellence in Education and Leadership Supplement to expand access to the performance-based teacher award program. This bill: broadens statewide eligibility for the performance-based teacher award program; provides a process for teachers employed in non-participating local education agencies to be considered for an award; and makes conforming changes.
Feb 20, 2026 · Passed 15–10 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill addresses reporting related to water use and large data centers. This bill: defines terms; directs land use authorities to issue certain notices; requires certain large data centers to communicate with water providers; requires reporting by operators of certain large data centers before construction and annually; addresses disclosure of the reported information; provides for enforcement mechanisms; addresses rulemaking; and makes technical and conforming amendments.
This bill addresses the jurisdictional management of public lands. This bill: defines terms; asserts the state's jurisdictional interest in land controlled by the federal government under a proprietary interest; directs the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office (office) to promote the state's jurisdictional interests on landscape-scale public lands; requires the office to: identify and map landscape-scale lands in the state; establish map layers for certain criteria on landscape-scale lands; map a landscape public nuisance area on landscape-scale lands containing forested areas; and report…
This bill addresses water rights and the state engineer's actions related to water rights. This bill: addresses actions related to an application to appropriate public water; modifies the extent to which the state engineer may consider a protest; addresses temporary applications; modifies the grounds that the state engineer may consider in approving or rejecting an application, including what the state engineer may consider related to public welfare; clarifies who is an aggrieved person for purposes of seeking judicial review; and makes technical and conforming changes.
This bill modifies and enacts provisions related to municipal and county fees. This bill: defines terms; prohibits a city from imposing a fee on the general public for broadband or public safety service, with exceptions; prohibits a town from imposing a fee on the general public for public safety service, with exceptions; authorizes a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee if the municipality or county complies with certain requirements; establishes a process and requirements for a municipality or county to impose a transportation utility fee; provides that property…
This bill addresses motorcycle and electric assisted bicycle use. This bill: clarifies the definition of a motorcycle to address electric motorcycles; modifies helmet requirements for youth; and addresses the use of a bicycle, electric assisted bicycle, mini-motorcycle, motor assisted scooter, or moped.
Feb 18, 2025 · Failed 11–13 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill amends provisions related to transportation, including road usage charge, towing dispatch, and local option sales tax use. This bill: allows a political subdivision to prohibit a mobile business from operating on a street or sidewalk that is temporarily closed for certain events; requires commercial electric vehicles with a gross weight of 6,001 pounds or more to pay a road usage charge with a higher road usage charge cap; exempts buses operating on the bus's planned route to temporarily cross lane lines to stop at a bus stop; exempts the Department of Transportation from certain…
This bill modifies provisions related to property tax. This bill: defines terms; prohibits taxpayers from receiving the homeowner's credit unless the taxpayer received the credit within the previous two years, beginning in 2026; removes requirements for annual inflation adjustments for the homeowner's credit; increases the household income limits and maximum credit amounts allowed for a renter's credit; changes the qualifications, scope, duration, and rates of interest applicable to the discretionary and nondiscretionary property tax deferral programs; prohibits taxpayers from receiving…
Feb 24, 2025 · Passed 15–10 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
This bill modifies provisions related to tax revenue. This bill: defines terms; limits the amount of reserve funds maintained by cities and counties; reduces the amount of the residential property tax exemption for rental properties, with certain exceptions; clarifies the applicability of the residential exemption for owners of multiple primary residences in the state; requires counties to provide information to the Multicounty Appraisal Trust regarding business entities that receive the residential exemption; excludes certain property valuation increases from the calculation of locally…
This bill creates an exemption in the Utah Fair Housing Act allowing a landlord to designate housing as single-sex based on biological sex. This bill: defines terms; permits a landlord to restrict occupancy in single-sex housing to individuals of the designated biological sex; clarifies that such restriction is not unlawful discrimination under the Utah Fair Housing Act; and makes technical and conforming changes.
This bill restricts certain entities from involvement in health education in public schools. This bill: defines terms; and prohibits a local education agency from allowing entities that perform elective abortions to provide health-related instruction or materials in public schools.
This bill amends provisions related to the provision of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to minors. This bill: prohibits providing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to minors after a certain date.
This bill amends provisions regarding health instruction and physical and mental health procedures in the public education system. This bill: defines terms; requires any health care provider to obtain informed parental consent before providing or facilitating telehealth or another health care service to a student within a public school; establishes requirements for certain restricted services, including: identifying who may and may not provide a restricted service; and requiring informed parental consent and certain parental notification; ensures that a local or state rule or policy does not…
This bill addresses reporting related to water use and large data centers. This bill: defines terms; directs land use authorities to issue certain notices; requires certain large data centers to communicate with water providers; requires reporting by operators of certain large data centers before construction and annually; addresses disclosure of the reported information; provides for enforcement mechanisms; addresses rulemaking; and makes technical and conforming amendments.
This bill modifies the Uniform Commercial Code. This bill: defines terms; excludes programmable money from the standard definition of money; prohibits a person from requiring the use of programmable money for a transaction unless the person also offers a free, non-digital alternative; outlaws an issuer denying a transaction based on discriminatory criteria, including a person's political opinions, religious beliefs, medical history, or lawful ownership of a firearm; prevents an issuer from using environmental, social, or governance standards and diversity programming compliance as a basis for…
This bill addresses website access litigation brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This bill: provides a sunset date for statutory provisions related to abusive website access litigation; defines terms; creates a civil action for a court to determine whether a lawsuit alleging a website access violation under the Americans with Disabilities Act is abusive; and allows a court to award attorney fees and costs, punitive damages, and sanctions if the lawsuit is abusive.
This bill addresses a program that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks for qualified veterans. This bill: creates a program, as funding allows, that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks to qualified veterans who are residents of the state; requires the Division of State Parks to offer the discounted veteran pass at a reduction of at least 25% of the price of a state parks annual day-use pass; provides for the automatic repeal of the discounted annual pass program after three years; and grants rulemaking authority to establish the program.
This bill addresses state sovereignty. This bill: defines terms; prohibits the governor or the chief executive officer of a political subdivision from declaring a state of emergency exclusively in response to an international organization's proclamation declaring a state of emergency; declares that an international organization has no power, jurisdiction, or legal authority in the state; prohibits the state, state agencies, and local governments from implementing or enforcing an international directive issued by an international organization; and makes technical changes.
Voted against most of their party on 20 of 229 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Climate & energy (5), Education & families (4), Jobs & cost of living (3)
Landscaper Certification Amendments
What it does: This bill amends provisions relating to landscape work. This bill: requires that the Division of Professional Licensing identify a specialty contractor that may engage in landscape work; provides continuing education…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 6–0, Republicans 8–13
What it does: This bill prohibits a law enforcement agency from using an unmarked law enforcement vehicle for certain purposes. This bill: defines terms; prohibits a law enforcement agency from using an unmarked law enforcement veh…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 5–0, Republicans 3–17
What it does: This bill provides funding for dental care for uninsured children. This bill: creates the Uninsured Children Dental Care Restricted Account; and directs certain revenue to the Uninsured Children Dental Care Restricted…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 6–0, Republicans 9–10
What it does: This bill establishes a framework for addressing enrollment growth disparities when school districts reorganize. This bill: authorizes successor districts to create voluntary high growth transition loan arrangements;…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 6–0, Republicans 9–12
What it does: This bill addresses who may obtain a vital record. This bill: allows a liaison for a homeless youth or child to obtain the minor's vital records on behalf of the homeless youth or child.
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 6–0, Republicans 9–11
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
HB 212 · UT SENATE
County Formation Amendments
YesVOTED
Motion: Senate/ failed
This bill modifies provisions related to the creation of a new county. This bill: defines terms; establishes a process for the legislative body of a petitioning municipality to initiate a process to create a new county; imposes a threshold for petitioners and certain viability requirements on the formation of a new county, including the completion of a feasibility study; allows certain rural property to remain in a seceding county, in certain circumstances; provides for the continuation of property taxation between a seceding county and a new county to satisfy general obligation or revenue…
This bill enacts provisions relating to punitive damages. This bill: provides that an insurer may not rely on the existence, likelihood, possibility, or exposure to punitive damages when taking actions under Title 31A, Insurance Code; provides the circumstances in which a court may award punitive damages against an employer, managing agent, or principal for the conduct of the employer's, managing agent's, or principal's employee or agent; provides that the provisions this bill enacts apply only to a claim arising after the effective date of the bill; and makes technical changes.
This bill requires the State Board of Education (state board) to study best practices regarding the use of software in public schools. This bill: defines terms; requires the state board to: conduct a study regarding the use of software and digital services in public schools; review best practices related to the educational effectiveness, design, and data practices of software that students use; publish guidance describing best practices for the responsible use of software in a public school; and upon request, report the findings of the study to the Education Interim Committee; and makes…
Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility
YesVOTED
Motion: Senate/ concurs with House amendment
This resolution recognizes Utah's role in aerospace innovation and affirms the state's commitment to developing and implementing Advanced Air Mobility technologies. This resolution: recognizes Utah's history as a global leader in aerospace innovation and research; describes the potential of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) technologies; recognizes Utah's ideal political, economic, and geographic environments for the testing and implementation of AAM technologies; outlines Utah's long-term goal to establish an operational AAM system and vertiport network before the 2034 Winter Olympic Games; and…
This bill concerns public assistance fraud. This bill: amends certain criminal provisions concerning obtaining or using public assistance; creates the offense of public assistance fraud by a person facilitating an inaccurate public assistance application; adds the newly created offense to the list of predicate offenses for a pattern of unlawful activity; and makes technical and conforming changes.
This bill amends a definition related to a student being excused from school. This bill: amends a definition related to a student being excused from school; and makes technical and conforming changes.
This bill concerns criminal conduct on public lands. This bill: defines terms; creates the Public Lands Restoration and Protection Fund (fund) to be administered by the State Historic Preservation Office; amends the criminal offense of defacing by graffiti on public lands, including to add conduct involving natural and archaeological features; amends penalty provisions for certain criminal violations of the offense of antiquities alteration, removal, injury, or destruction; provides that a court may order criminal restitution to be deposited into the fund for a violation of: defacing by…
This bill amends provisions related to general education writing requirements. This bill: allows institutions of higher education to voluntarily adopt certain writing requirements; directs the Utah Board of Higher Education to establish minimum requirements for using primary source documents in writing courses; and makes technical and conforming changes.
Motion: Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage
This bill addresses natural resources within the state. This bill: facilitates faster permitting by the Department of Environmental Quality and the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining; modifies the tax credit for mining exploration; creates the State Reinvestment Restricted Account and diverts various streams of income related to severance taxes into the State Reinvestment Restricted Account; addresses property tax differentials based on critical minerals zones; defines terms; establishes the state critical minerals objectives and policy, including providing for annual reviews; creates the…
This bill amends the criminal offense of emergency reporting abuse. This bill: modifies the offense of emergency reporting abuse to include conduct in which an actor contacts a 911 emergency response service when the actor knows, or reasonably should know, that no actual or perceived emergency, crime, or other circumstance jeopardizing public safety exists; adds new penalties to the criminal offense of emergency reporting abuse; moves a definition to the statute in which the definition is referenced; and makes technical and conforming changes.
