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Utah cities and counties are currently required to annually report to the state on their efforts to encourage moderate-income housing — describing what zoning changes, land use decisions, and housing strategies they've implemented. This bill updates those reporting requirements for 2026, allowing local governments that already complied in 2025 to carry that compliance forward without filing a new report. It also adds two new data points that cities must include in future annual reports: the raw number of new homes built (measured by certificates of occupancy issued) and the estimated percent change in total housing units compared to the prior year. Most significantly, the bill creates a new transportation funding incentive tied to housing production: cities that demonstrate their total housing stock grew by 2.5% or more in a given year become eligible for priority consideration from the state Transportation Commission for significant regional transportation projects — including projects located outside the city's own boundaries. Cities that fail to comply with the housing reporting requirements, by contrast, remain ineligible for state transportation investment funds.