2014 Utah Legislative Roundup

A fairly lackluster performance on the part of our Utah legislature, we'll conjecture

To kickstart our Friday morning Weber County Forum discussion, we'll devote a few paragraphs and provide some links to a roundup of  the 2014 Utah General Legislative Session, which wrapped last night around midnight, starting with this updated legislative summary from the Salt Lake Tribune:

• Utah Legislature roundup

We'll also reel off a few Trib stories which deserve special post-session attention:

• 2014 Utah legislative session: Guv emerges the victor
• Swallow scandal helped break logjam on ethics bills
• Utah elections reshaped with compromise on Count My Vote initiative

And here are few more, just for good measure:

On the heels of  yesterdy's Standard-Examiner guest commentary, the Trib reports that "[l]awmakers passed a compromise bill to increase the privacy of voter-registration records. The House and Senate unanimously passed SB36, which outlines prohibited uses of the voter registry, makes changes to who can access voter birth dates and allows people to make their voter information private":

• Lawmakers pass bill to make voter information more private

On the downside. here are several items spotlighting instances where our legislature missed some glorious opportunities and entirely "fumbled the ball," in our never-humble opinion, of course:

• Lawmakers didn’t act on anti-bias, liquor reform or same-sex marriage
• No Medicaid expansion deal reached in Utah
• House kills campaign donation limits bill

A fairly lackluster performance on the part of our Utah legislature, we'll conjecture;  but what say our Gentle Readers about all this?

And the floor's open, WCF political wonks.  Is there any important 2014 Utah legislation which you believe we missed?

Update 3/19/14 7:00 p.m. Top-notch 2014 legislative session post-mortem via Salt Lake City Weekly. "Take a ride with Salt Lake Weekly [columnists Eric S. Peterson & Colby Frazier] as [they] look at the critical bills that made it over the hump, from cannabis-oil treatments for epileptic kids to the controversial Count My Vote compromise bill and more":

• 2014 Utah Legislative Recap