ST. GEORGE — Rep. Travis Seegmiller has notified the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives that he is resigning his seat effective July 1 and is also withdrawing from the fall elections.
According to a press release from the Utah House, Seegmiller notified Speaker Brad Wilson on Tuesday of his intention to resign, citing a plan for his family to move outside the boundaries of his current district.
“I appreciate Rep. Seegmiller’s service and accept his resignation,” Wilson said in a statement. “I wish Rep. Seegmiller and his family well in their future plans and endeavors.”
Seegmiller pleaded no contest in April to a misdemeanor charge stemming from an incident last August where he was accused of shooting a doe on a resident’s private property.
Seegmiller was ordered to pay $400 in restitution to the “Stop Poaching Fund” and $400 in the plea in abeyance fee. His hunting privileges were suspended for three years.
The lifelong St. George resident is the second-straight person to resign from the District 62 seat in the wake of questions over conduct.
Seegmiller was first appointed to the seat in February 2018 after then Rep. Jon Stanard abruptly resigned. Stanard at first cited the need to care for an ill family member, but reports later surfaced that Stanard paid a prostitute for sex in a taxpayer-funded hotel room.
Seegmiller was selected out of eight candidates in a special election held by the Washington County GOP. Seegmiller noted at the time that it was his first elected office since he was elected as Student Body President at Pine View High School 25 years before.
Seegmiller was re-elected in 2020 with 99.3% of the vote after running unopposed.
Seegmiller was to face Southern Utah University Board Member Nina Barnes and Dixie Power engineer Colin Jack in the Republican primary.
St. George News reached out to Seegmiller for comment about his resignation but had not yet heard back by the time this report was published.
In the statement announcing the resignation, it also was announced that the Washington County Republican Party will hold a special election to fill the vacancy in the coming months similar to the special election held after Stanard’s resignation.
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