Posted: August 18, 2025
Code of Judicial Administration – Effective September 1, 2025
CJA 4-202.02. Records classification (AMEND)
CJA 4-202.03. Records access (AMEND)
CJA 4-510.06. Cases exempt from ADR rules (AMEND)
Statutory references updated to coincide with the September 1, 2025 recodification effective date in S.B. 119.
Posted: July 23, 2025
Rules Governing the Utah State Bar – Effective July 9, 2025
USB14-1001. IOLTA. Amend.
There are multiple amendments to this rule. The amendments clarify the responsibilities related to unclaimed and unidentifiable funds in client trust accounts. The amendments define the obligations of lawyers and law firms when handling unclaimed funds, as well as the duties of the representative of a deceased or incapacitated lawyer’s estate in managing such funds. They also clarify the Utah Bar Foundation’s responsibilities in relation to unclaimed funds. In addition, the amendments address the obligations of lawyers, law firms, estate representatives, and the Utah Bar Foundation concerning unidentifiable funds in client trust accounts. The amendments also encourage the cooperation of IOLTA banking institutions and the Utah Unclaimed Property Division in addressing these issues. Finally, the amendments outline the procedures that the Utah Bar Foundation and the Office of Professional Conduct should follow when dealing with unclaimed and unidentifiable client trust account funds.
Posted: July 22, 2025
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education – Effective July 1, 2026
USB11-604. Active status lawyers MCLE, NLTP, admission on motion, multi-state compliance reciprocity, house counsel and UBE requirements; MCLE requirements for Paralegal Practitioners. Amend. Requesting changes to the MCLE rules permitting lawyers to carry CLE hours forward from one year to the next; permitting reciprocal credit for lawyers with primary offices out of state.
Posted: July 22, 2025
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education – Effective November 1, 2025
USB11-602. Definitions. Amend. Delete the term “Comity Certificate;” in Rule 11-602 and add the definitions of “Multi-State Reciprocity” and “Carry-Forward Hours”.
USB11-611. Board Accreditation of CLE. Amend. Make technical revisions to Rule 11-611 to re-organize the steps required to receive approval for CLE which is not offered to all lawyers and licensed paralegal practitioners.
USB11-612. Presumptively approved CLE providers; presumptive CLE Accreditation. Amend. Change the capitalized word “Accreditation” to “accreditation” in Rule 11-612 and add the word “Rule” where it was inadvertently left out.
USB11-617. Miscellaneous fees and expenses. Amend. Add a filing fee for a lawyer to request “Multi-State Reciprocity” in Rule 11-617.
USB11-619. CLE Credit for Pro Bono Legal Services. Amend. Remove the expiration date from Rule 11-619 permanently allowing CLE credit for qualified pro bono services.
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.