Corinne Johnson, president of Utah Parents United, told Politicket host John Johnson that her group organized parents at the State Legislature this year and supported several bills that she said have advanced or passed this session.

"We will pass every single 1 of our priority bills this session," Johnson said, describing seven priority bills the group ran "all to protect parental rights in Utah." She credited parent witnesses and statewide media attention for rapid movement on some measures.

Johnson highlighted one of the first bills of the session, a college housing measure she described as preserving "female spaces." "Avery had the courage to say she was uncomfortable with a man in her dorm," Johnson said, referring to testimony from Avery Saltzman and the Saltzman family. Johnson said the bill "was in the first committee. It passed the house unanimously, went to second committee in the senate, passed the senate unanimously, and then the governor signed it within the first couple weeks of the session." She later clarified voting within the Republican caucus, saying "there was 1 senator ... Dan Thatcher ... he did vote against the bill, but every other Republican voted for the bill."

On homeschooling, Johnson said the group worked with a newly launched coalition called UHope to oppose a local practice of requiring background checks for parents who submit a homeschool affidavit. "A bill to stop this process ... passed [the House] unanimously," she said. According to Johnson, the bill was briefly rerouted to a committee where it was expected to die, but a coordinated turnout of homeschool families at the Capitol — which she described as "3 to 400 homeschoolers on the Hill All Day" — helped move the measure through committee unanimously after language tweaks.

Johnson also listed other measures Utah Parents United supported this year: a bill she described as banning the addition of medicinal fluoride to public water systems (which she called a statewide first), a flag‑neutrality measure for schools, a large parental‑rights and mental‑health guardrails bill for school services, and what she called the "App Store Accountability Act," which she said is intended to require parental consent for children to sign contracts with apps and could avoid some constitutional challenges that affected prior social‑media bills.

Johnson framed the legislative work as a mix of public testimony, targeted sponsor relationships and leadership support. She named sponsors for the dorm measure as House sponsor Stephanie Grishias and Senate sponsor Brady Brammer, and she said leadership asked them to run the bill. She also said Utah State University officials did not contact the Saltzman family before placing a male resident‑advisor in an all‑female suite, and that the family pursued legislative clarification after the university declined to change policy.

The episode included several direct statements and campaign‑style descriptions from Johnson about the parents' movement: "We're not paid lobbyists. We are there because we care," she said, and "Parents are following. They're emailing. They're texting." She recommended listeners follow Utah Parents United's bill tracker at utahparentsunited.org and join the group's text alerts for legislative action.

What the interview does not establish: the podcast is an interview and much of the timeline and vote information are Johnson's characterizations of events. The transcript includes Johnson's statements that some measures were unanimously approved in committees and that the dorm bill was signed by Gov. Spencer Cox; it does not include official legislative roll‑call documents or bill numbers. For several items Johnson described (the fluoride measure, the App Store proposal, the mental‑health guardrails and the flags bill), she described passage through committees or expectations about floor action but did not provide final, chamber‑level roll‑call counts in the interview.

Utah Parents United can be found online at utahparentsunited.org; Johnson said the group posts testimony and video from the session on its Instagram account and that the Saltzman testimony is available there.