Two new Utah laws going into effect on Jan. 1, 2025 you should know

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Two new Utah laws going into effect on Jan. 1, 2025 you should know

SALT LAKE CITY (

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) — 2024 was a busy year for Utah lawmakers who passed a total of 591 bills near the start of the year. While most of those have already gone into effect,

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that don’t take effect until 2025.

A majority of these are budgetary or tax reforms but there are two you should be aware of as we turn the calendar.

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, you can ditch that front license plate.

During the finish-line push of the 2024 General Session, Utah lawmakers

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that removed the requirement on Utah cars to display both a front and back license plate.

The bill also made a few changes to what you can expect at the DMV. For example, instead of two stickers for both the month and year for when your vehicle registration will expire, all that information will be consolidated into just one decal.

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Sen. Daniel McCay (R-Riverton), who sponsored the bill, told ABC4.com earlier this year that the bill will save Utah quite a bit of money in the long run — an estimated $3 million per year. He also said compliance with front license plates was already low in the Beehive State in the first place.

In addition to consolidating license plate requirements, the bill also appropriates a dollar for each license plate saved to the Utah Highway Patrol to boost trooper availability, prohibits frames from obscuring or covering numbers or decals, and requires all new plate designs to be approved by a “License Plate Design Review Board.”

As part of the state’s continued campaign to protect children from the harms of internet and phone use, the Children’s Device Protection Act targets cell phones and tablets to include safeguards and protections within the state.

Under the CDPA, any tablet or smartphone manufactured after the turn of the new year will be required to have a filter for devices used by minors. This filter should be designed to prevent a minor from accessing “obscene material” through internet browsers and search engines through the device.

When setting up the device, it will ask the user to provide their age. If the user puts in an age under 18, the act requires the filter to automatically be enabled. A parent or guardian who is not a minor can de-activate or re-activate the filter with a password.

It would be considered a criminal offense for anyone other than the parent or guardian of the minor to deactivate the filter.

According to the bill, manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung would be held liable if their new devices do not comply with the new law. The bill opens up pathways for both the Utah Attorney General and parents and guardians to file lawsuits against manufacturers should their child’s device not comply.

These manufacturers could suffer thousands of dollars in penalties per violation.

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