Transparency in the Utah government

Lobbying disclosure information
URL: https://secure.utah.gov/lobbyist/lobbysearch

Description:
 * Utah Lobbyist Online directory website allows searches for lobbyists and information on expenditures by quarter.

Campaign finance disclosure
URL: https://gva1.utah.gov/disclosures/

Description:
 * View and file financial disclosure reports for candidates, officeholders, PACs, PICs, Parties, and Corporations

Official website for the State of Utah
URL: http://www.utah.gov/

Description:
 * No official statewide spending database online yet, but Utah Senate Bill 38 (2008), Transparency in Government, mandates a publicly available spending database by May 15, 2009.
 * Site includes RSS feeds

Utah state legislature website
URL: http://www.le.state.ut.us/Documents/bills.htm

Description:
 * Site functions include searching bills, effective dates, passed bills, and tracking of bills dating from 1997.

Proposed legislation
SB 18 Substitute

(Track bill)


 * Requires local entities such as counties, municipalities, school districts, water districts, etc., to post public financial information on their Web sites and to link the information to the Utah Public Finance Web site.

More legislative information
For more on transparency legislation, see the Utah transparency legislation webpage at Sunshine Review.