Those 70,000 taxpayers will be able to pay their insurance premiums with "pre-tax" dollars, which could save those people between $100 and $500 per year.

• A small statewide sales tax hike. The 0.05 percentage-point increase means that on all purchases except food, Utahns will pay 5 cents more on a $100 tab. It means maybe a $9 increase in sales tax paid per Utahn per year, GOP leaders said. The approximately $22 million raised will be put toward what are called road "choke-points" — areas where roads narrow, slowing traffic flows.

• Salt Lake City will be allowed to continue with its new domestic partnership registry.

• So-called "alcopop" drinks, flavored drinks that contain 3.2 percent alcohol, must be removed from grocery and convenience stores and placed in state liquor stores. But on the side of more reasonable liquor laws, restaurants and private clubs will be allowed to pour stiffer drinks with more alcohol in drinks such as martinis.

• Severe abuse or torture of domestic cats and dogs can be a felony on the first offense.

• St. George will get a $39 million "bridge loan" from the state to allow it to immediately start building a new airport northeast of the city.

• Airlines, especially Delta Air Lines, will get a tax break. Legislators want to encourage Delta to keep its hub in Salt Lake City by providing a $5.7 million tax break.

• About $100 million will be spent on plans for the $1.85 billion rebuilding of I-15 in Utah County. The bond will be authorized in the 2009 session, although GOP House leaders warned their colleagues that taxes may have to be raised next year to help pay for highway and water projects.

• Salt Lake City will get some special funds to help the Utah Transit Authority build a TRAX line to Salt Lake City International Airport.

• A statewide building equalization bill will mean the established four school districts in Salt Lake County will have to give some of their taxpayer dollars to the new Jordan West School District so the growing district can build new schools.

• Children between the ages of 5 and 8 will have to sit on a special "booster seat" when strapped into normal seat belts in vehicles.

• House GOP leadership made sure that several million dollars were available to provide dental and eye-wear for some Medicaid patients, avoiding the protests of previous years by some of Utah's needy.

Huntsman told the Deseret Morning News that the health-care-reform package he backed could have blown up, but with "good legislative leadership we avoided what could have been a drawn-out and painful" process on that issue.