• Nearly $20 million is set aside for a veteran's home in Ogden.

• Veterans who received the Purple Heart get free tuition to graduate schools at Utah public universities.

• The Legislature's main health-care reform bill, HB133, takes effect. But the measure involves a step-by-step approach over several years, with $1.5 million spent this year.

• Crime victims can submit a written statement to Utah's appellate court should the criminal who harmed them appeal his conviction.

• The estate of a person killed by illegal drugs can sue the person who provided or administered the lethal drugs.

• If a local government has a ballot issue, that local government must provide a voter information pamphlet on the issue.

• If your local school has a kindergarten readiness program, the school must evaluate each child early enough so that a parent has time to correct any readiness problems their child may have before starting school.

• Special Gold Star license plates are available for any family that has lost a soldier in war.

• The Health Department must develop a registry of those with autism or another developmental disability.

• A school teacher's license is permanently revoked if he or she commits a sexual offense against a minor or engages in sexually explicit conduct with a student.

• Owners of rental properties of two or fewer units no longer need a regulatory business license or inspection requirements.

• Dishwashing soaps that have more than 0.5 percent phosphorus by weight are banned.

• New requirements are in effect that are aimed at stopping school bullying and hazing.

• The state's CHIP health insurance program is open to any lower-income child.

• Text messages enticing a minor to have unlawful sex are banned.

• Human trafficking for profit or commerce is banned.

• Open enrollment in public schools is more transparent.

• Reporting requirements are tightened for convicted sex offenders.

• Stalking of another person by electronic means or by a third party is prohibited.

• Charter school students can participate in extracurricular activities in the public school they would have attended.

• Utahns can carry weapons in times of official emergencies.

• Computer-assisted hunting is prohibited.

• Delta Air Lines gets a tax break.

• It is now a felony to torture companion animals, such as a dog or cat, the result of the passage of what came to be called "Henry's Law," for a dog cruelly mistreated that became the mascot for the campaign.

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