FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Casey Hill, Utah State Director, casey@lincolnhill.com
Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, anthony.malandra@nfib.org
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 8, 2026—The state’s leading small business association today released its voting record for the 2025-2026 session of the Utah State Legislature, showing 54 out of 104 lawmakers coming away with perfect scores.
“I think the Utah Legislature should take a bow for being one of the more small business friendly state legislatures in the nation,” said Casey Hill, state director for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Utah. “Our voting record revealed 54 legislators with 100% scores and, discounting one with a 20% record, no senator or representative had less than a 57% tally. Very impressive.”
Legislators were graded on their votes on eight issues of high importance to small businesses. A brief description of those bills and every lawmaker’s vote on them can be found in the voting record.
“Our state and federal voting records are acknowledged as the benchmark separating elected officials who claim to be friends of small business from those who actually are,” said Hill. “Those lawmakers who are proven friends of small business fundamentally know the problems of public policy that lumps Main Street enterprises in with bigger businesses on every issue.”
There are 371,569 small businesses in Utah, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, a number that accounts for 99.4% of all businesses in the state. These Main Street enterprises employ 690,069 Utahns.
Keep up with the latest on Utah small business news at www.nfib.com or on X @nfib_ut.
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