After a dry summer when fireworks ignited many fires, Utah legislators lighted a fuse Wednesday toward possibly blasting current fireworks regulations.
The Business and Labor Interim Committee voted to open a “committee bill file” to amend fireworks laws. Legislative staff gives priority to drafting legislation that is deemed a committee bill over legislation sought by individual members.
Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, House chairman of the committee and author of legislation that legalized aerial fireworks in 2011, requested the move. But he said exactly what that bill may contain is yet to be worked out.
