State representative, House District 12 · Republican
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2025-09-30 file photo: Mike Schultz and Trevor Lee. “Mike Schultz & Trevor Lee by Gage Skidmore.jpg.” Full-frame group scene. Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2025-09-30 file photo: Mike Schultz and Trevor Lee. “Mike Schultz & Trevor Lee by Gage Skidmore.jpg.” Full-frame group scene. Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Mike Schultz is a candidate for Utah House, District 12. The ballot lists Mike Schultz, Republican. The district covers all or part of Davis and Weber counties.
The final-passage votes in the 2026 sessions that were decided by the fewest votes, with Mike Schultz's vote. These are picked by the size of the margin in the official tally alone, not by topic or party.
Mike Schultz grew up in Weber County and built a working life in construction and agriculture before entering state politics. The House's biography describes early work on cattle and dairy farms, hauling hay and roofing houses. He later became a general contractor and operated small businesses, including a homebuilding company he stepped away from in 2023. The same biography identifies a family ranch in Croydon as his continuing business activity. [1]
From District 12 to speaker
Schultz began representing House District 12 in 2015 and became speaker in November 2023. His House biography connects that political base to Hooper, Roy and West Haven. As of this review, the Legislature's member record identifies him as a Republican representing a district spanning Davis and Weber counties. His leadership position sits alongside a district representative's responsibilities rather than replacing them. [1] [2]
Water, classrooms and growth
In his January 20, 2026 opening-day address, Schultz framed housing costs, childcare, school quality and time spent in traffic as household concerns that should guide the session. He called for long-range attention to the Great Salt Lake, energy, land management and critical minerals. Those remarks describe his priorities and arguments for investment; they do not establish that a particular project has been funded or completed. [3]
In the 2026 General Session, Mike Schultz was chief sponsor of H.B. 274, Sentencing Amendments. It changes who sits on the Sentencing Commission, directs the commission to weigh stated objectives and revise its adult sentencing and supervision guidelines for certain offenses before November 1, 2026, and adjusts how courts consider factors at sentencing. The governor signed it on March 24, 2026. [4]
Budget and oversight work
His official assignments include Executive Appropriations, House Business, Labor, and Commerce, and House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment. He also serves on Legislative Management, the Legislative Audit Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Oversight. Together, those assignments connect budget decisions, business regulation and resource policy with review of how state agencies operate. Specific sponsorships and floor votes remain separate records from these committee memberships. [2]
Profile sources
Profile refreshed October 25, 2026. Candidate statements describe the candidate's own experience or positions; official records and reporting are labeled separately.
The council unanimously adopted Resolution 2026-23 on Oct. 7. It says the law lets landowners form a city without a public vote and could leave counties with the costs.
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Auditors found colleges paid some tenured faculty to leave, including a $175,000 payment to a professor who charged personal expenses to a university card.
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Auditors found no statistical tie between fees and sale prices, but more than half of nine local governments reviewed in depth misspent fees or broke state rules.
· From Office of the Legislative Auditor General
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A state committee approved a housing and transit reinvestment zone by Lehi's FrontRunner station in 2023. Agreements that refer to up to 80% of the zone's new property tax, capped at $122,144,769, were on redevelopment agency agendas in July and again on Oct. 13, 2026.
Utah won its second Winter Olympics in 2024 with its venues already standing, so the run-up to 2034 is about money, transit, legacy programs and who is in charge.
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A Utah House post outlines laws on electricity costs, water reporting and tax incentives, and Speaker Mike Schultz says lawmakers 'do not want a state full of data centers.'
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The Utah House chamber at the Capitol, Feb. 16, 2011. File photo. Photo: Scott Catron · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
