HB84 (Dayton) -- Required hospitals to list separately on their billing statements the tax paid by the hospital and charged back to the patient for the Children's Health Insurance Program. Leavitt said the bill unfairly targets the insurance program.
HB89 (Way) -- Required government entities to mail certain information to registered voters every time they wanted a bond election. Leavitt said the bill would have required the mailing of complicated financial information, perhaps four or five pages' worth, to every voter on every special election. That would have caused an undue financial hardship on government.HB226 (B. Johnson) -- Made it easier for Grand County residents living across the river from Green River to annex into Emery County. Leavitt said he empathized with the Green River situation but noted there are four or five other communities that straddle county lines and lawmakers failed to look at how the law might impact them.
HB284 (Dayton) -- Specified that if and when Utah receives its share of the tobacco settlement funds, some of that money would go to replace the hospital tax now paid by the hospitals to fund the Children's Health Insurance Program. Leavitt said it is unwise policy to commit any of the settlement monies to any specific purpose before it is received.
HB294 (Adair) -- Bill would have limited the amount mortgage lenders could loan to the actual market value of the property, thereby banning the common practice of some institutions of loaning 110 percent or 120 percent of the value of a home or property. Leavitt said it was an unnecessary interference with the free market and could have inhibited Veterans Administration loans where points and closing costs are added on to the purchase price.