Posted: July 22, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective November 1, 2025
CJA03-117. Committee on Court Forms (AMEND)
The amendments: 1) formalize the authority of the Forms Committee; 2) clarify that the Judicial Council must approve forms used by Licensed Paralegal Practitioners; 3) grant the Forms Committee the authority to approve all other forms; 4) allow the Forms Committee to delegate its responsibility for certain groups of forms; and 5) direct the Forms Committee to draft forms that center on the needs of self-represented litigants and enhance access to justice.
CJA03-403. Judicial branch education (AMEND)
The amendments make the rule applicable to all state employees who are not time-limited and modify program requirements to align with the judiciary’s performance year.
Posted: July 22, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective July 21, 2025
CJA03-116. Pretrial Release and Supervision Committee (REPEAL)
The standing committee on pretrial release and supervision was dissolved and removed from CJA Rule 1-205 in November 2024, but the associate committee rule was not repealed.
Posted: July 11, 2025
Rules of Juvenile Procedure – Effective November 1, 2025
URJP037A. Visual recording of statement or testimony of child in abuse, neglect, dependency, or substantiation proceedings – Conditions of admissibility. Amend. The approved changes to Rule 37A add child protective order proceedings and other related non-delinquency proceedings to the title and to paragraphs (a), (b), and (c). There are also several grammatical changes throughout and changes that conform to the Supreme Court’s Style Guide.
URJP044. Findings and conclusions. Amend. The approved amendment to Rule 44 strikes the procedure in paragraph (c) that directs a court to “dismiss any petition which has not been proven,” and replaces it with the following two procedures: (1) in regards to a non-delinquency case, a court will dismiss a petition that has not been proven; and (2) in a delinquency case, the court will enter a finding and disposition of Not True when an allegation of delinquency has not been proven. To accommodate the two proposed procedures, current paragraphs (d), (e), and (f) were renumbered. There are also several grammatical changes throughout and changes that conform to the Supreme Court’s Style Guide.
Posted: July 11, 2025
Rules of Juvenile Procedure – Effective September 1, 2025
URJP016. Transfer of delinquency case. Amend. The approved amendments to Rule 16 include: (1) in paragraph (a), the preliminary inquiry by the probation officer will occur in the county of residence, but if the minor or the minor’s parent, guardian, or custodian cannot be located or fails to appear for a preliminary inquiry or the minor declines the offer for a nonjudicial adjustment, the referral will be transferred back to the county of occurrence; (2) paragraph (b) establishes the minor’s county of residence as the venue for arraignment and pretrial proceedings; (3) in paragraph (c), trial proceedings will be held in the county of occurrence; (4) paragraph (c) also provides further direction regarding different types of motions; (5) changes to paragraph (d) reflect current C.A.R.E. uploading and eFiling practices; and (6) grammatical and stylistic changes were made to align with the Supreme Court’s Style Guide.
URJP16A. Transfer of a non-delinquency proceeding. Amend. The approved amendments to Rule 16A include: (1) moving the procedure regarding scheduling in paragraph (d) down to paragraph (e); (2) moving the procedure regarding the notice of the transfer in paragraph (e) up to paragraph (d); and (3) removing procedures in paragraph (e) regarding the “transmit[ting]” of documents. The changes reflect a logical transfer sequence and an updated transfer process given current C.A.R.E. uploading and eFiling practices.
URJP029. Multiple county offenses. Amend. The approved changes to Rule 29 are tied to the approved changes to Rule 16 of the Utah Rules of Juvenile Procedure. Paragraph (a) again establishes that arraignment and pretrial proceedings must occur in the minor’s county of residence. When transferring, paragraph (b) refers the reader to Rule 16.
Posted: July 10, 2025
Supreme Court Rules of Professional Practice – Effective July 9, 2025
CJA11-201. Senior Judges. (Amend)
The proposed amendments to Rule 11-201: (1) clarify and revise qualifications for appointment of senior judges, and (2) include general cleanup for clarity and consistency.
Posted: July 10, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective July 1, 2025
CJA03-402. Rule 3-402. Human resources administration. (AMEND)
Clarifies that the Grievance Review Panel has the authority to review adverse employment actions taken against career service employees and updates the list of adverse employment actions.
Posted: June 26, 2025
Rules Governing Licensed Paralegal Practitioners – Effective June 25, 2025
URGLPP15-703. Qualifications for Licensure as a Licensed Paralegal Practitioner. Amend. The approved amendments to Rule 15-703: (1) change the educational requirement option for Licensed Paralegal Practitioner licensure from an associate’s degree in paralegal studies to an associate’s degree in any subject plus a paralegal certificate, (2) change the educational requirement option for Licensed Paralegal Practitioner licensure of a bachelor’s degree in paralegal studies to a bachelor’s degree in any subject, and (3) includes general cleanup to add formatting and technical consistency.
Posted: June 25, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective July 1, 2025
CJA04-111. Priority of post-conviction petitions in capital cases (AMEND)
The amendments remove the requirement that the Administrative Office of the Courts prepare a monthly report on pending post-conviction petitions in capital cases because those reports are no longer needed.
CJA04-403. Electronic signature and signature stamp use (AMEND)
The amendments grant district, juvenile, and justice courts the discretion to authorize clerks to use a judge’s or commissioner’s electronic signature or signature stamp on additional document types without judicial review by issuing a standing order signed by a presiding judge.
CJA01-205. Standing and ad hoc committees (AMEND)
CJA04-202.02. Records classification (AMEND)
CJA04-202.03. Records access (AMEND)
CJA04-206. Exhibits (AMEND)
CJA04-510.06. Testing and reporting requirements for guardians and conservators (AMEND)
CJA04-613. Jail prisoner transportation (AMEND)
CJA06-501. Testing and reporting requirements for guardians and conservators (AMEND)
The amendments correct references to statutes that do not take effect until September 1, 2025, and make other clerical, non-substantive changes.
Posted: June 2, 2025
Rules of Appellate Procedure – Effective November 1, 2025
URAP035. Petition for rehearing. Rule 35 is amended to update the reference to Rule 27 which was amended May 1, 2024.
URAP044. Transfer of improperly pursued appeals. The amendments to Rule 44 include: 1) clarifying what happens when an appeal is improperly filed with the appellate court and what the filing date of the appeal will be; and 2) clarifying that a transfer of an appeal under this rule is not an adjudication that jurisdiction is proper.
Posted: May 20, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective July 1, 2025
CJA04-202.08. Fees for records, information, and services
The proposed amendments increase fees for Xchange subscriptions and access.