It is difficult for a lay person to follow the flow of bills through the legislature to become law (or not). When I've tried to read bills to understand and to take a position pro or con, I run into all kinds of roadblocks like: This will be changed from what is described in Utah Law xxxxxxx as amended blah, blah, blah to the new version (see another location). The language used is not average Utahn friendly, and it is hard to know exactly what the bill is doing. I spoke with the person who's responsible for making the bills available to the public and gave some suggestions to make the bills more easily understood, even the tricky parts where it appears the bill is going to do some good things but actually it's going to do bad things. One to three proponents of a bill could write a brief synopsis of the bill, 1-3 opponents of the bill could write their summary as to why they oppose it, and these summaries could be placed in front of each actual bill that goes up on the website. Also, bills could strike the language attitude and have them read as a person would speak to another. Strike the roadblocks by actually including text now only referenced, or footnoting these references and at the end of the bill have a page or two that summarizes what is said in the references. I thought something like that would make it possible for a huge number of Utah citizens to learn about bills that are of interest to them and actually know what the bill would do if passed into law. The better the people know what is being done in the legislature, the more input to our leaders from the people, serves the people's interest and allows the public to try and influence their legislators in a direction that serves them, and when elections roll around, to hold legislators accountable for how well they served the people. You know what I was told by the one in charge of publishing the bills for the public? No legislator wants to make what they do more transparent so that they are held accounta