Utah County motorists: Likely to get more than their share of road funding.
It's now a felony to torture them,
Parents of disabled children: Carson Smith
Special Needs Scholarship provides a break on private school tuition.
Greg Curtis and John Valentine: The new legislative leaders kept things civil and mostly noncontroversial.
IHC: Faced with paying taxes or spinning off its insurance arm, instead it gets a task force.
Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert and 11 other Cabinet members: They will see a big boost in their paychecks.
Voters: Even when punch-card ballot machines are gone, lawmakers say, you still get to have some type of paper ballot.
Home-schoolers: No school board regulation, just a signed affidavit to say they are responsibly educating their children.
Surrogate mothers: They will be able to give birth in Utah.
Lighting up in bars is still legal.
Antelope Island's deer and big horn sheep: They are still safe from hunters.
Midwives: Will be able to attend home births and do more than "catch" the baby.
Losers:
Corporations: Sorry, you're still paying state income taxes.
Public education: Got a $126 million boost, but transportation siphoned off other funds.
Unmarried, longtime couples: No marriagelike rights.
Nonsmokers: You still have to put up with smoke-filled bars.
IHC: Must endure two years of legislative scrutiny after some legislators are upset with billing practices.
Undocumented residents: Your driver license is gone, but you will get a "driving privilege card."
State employees: Got a 2.5 percent salary boost, but lost a battle to be able to cash in unused sick leave for medical benefits.
AIDS patients: They didn't get enough money to cover medication.
Minorities: Utah lawmakers don't consider hate crimes to be unique.
Prison inmates: No drug rehabilitation behind bars.
Veterans: No new nursing home, despite a waiting list.


