New Utah state flag may be on the 2022 ballot

A design example of a new Utah state flag. Photo: The Organization for a New Utah Flag

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. — A new Utah state flag will potentially be on the November 2022 election ballot.

“We’d like to put it on the 2022 ballot to let the people vote. We’re still figuring this out if we’re going to give them a choice of three designs and it might just be we keep the old flag,” Utah Representative Stephen Handy told ABC4.com. “Right now we’re going to expand the deadline and really be deliberative about it for the next year and a half and get this on the ballot in November of 2022.”

Handy said the original plan, to have the flag ready by 2021, is too rushed.

The comments follow the first meeting of the State Flag Task Force in mid-June.

In a 2020 survey conducted by the Organization for a New Utah Flag, 86.1% of respondents said they aren’t proud nor do they identify with Utah’s current state flag.