* What it does: The final version of the bill allows Salt Lake City to create a domestic partnership registry, a mechanism by which employers can voluntarily extend heath care and other benefits to adult designees of their employees. However, the legislation requires the registry to shed the "domestic partnership" part of its title.

* Salt Lake's take: City leaders say the legislation isn't necessary. However, it allows the registry to remain substantively intact, so they're OK with it.

* Grade: C

SB245

* What it does: At first this was a bill removing Salt Lake City leaders' ability to use airport fees to fund the $35 million portion on airport property of a planned light-rail line to the airport. A late addition to the bill provided Salt Lake City with a way to offset those costs.

* Salt Lake's take: "The Legislature decided they don't want Salt Lake City to use airport revenues, which I think is way beyond the pale of what they should be inserting themselves into," Mayor Ralph Becker said. "In the end, they provided for us an alternative that covers at least part of the cost."

* Grade: B

SB48

* What it does: The so-called equalization bill requires Salt Lake City, Murray and Granite school districts to pool their tax dollars to give $12.2 million to the portion of the Jordan School District left behind after east-side cities split away. Salt Lake City was hit with a $6 million bill, which will result in a property tax increase.

* Salt Lake's take: "It's important to Salt Lake City leaders that we get the message out to our taxpayers that this is a tax imposed on our citizens by the Legislature to address the Jordan district split," said Jill Remington Love, City Council chairwoman. "It's going to be a tax increase to our property owners, and the money is not going to stay in Salt Lake City; it's going to Jordan."

* Grade: F

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