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Votes at a glance: summary of Senate bills and committee reports considered March 4, 2025
Summary
The House took floor action on many Senate-originated bills; below are brief outcomes and key details for bills that received brief floor consideration and recorded votes.
On March 4, the Utah House considered numerous Senate-originated bills on the third-reading calendar. Several measures were passed with little floor debate and were sent to the Senate or otherwise recorded; the list below notes recorded roll-call results and the short floor descriptions provided.
- SB 162 (first substitute) — Talent Connect: Creates a pilot cooperative engineering education program and a talent portal to link industry and students. Passed 68–0.
- SB 142 (sixth substitute) — App Store Accountability Act: Sought updates to app-store practices affecting minors, including parental consent, deceptive age ratings and age verification. After amendment adoption the sixth substitute passed 64–3.
- SB 146 — Glucagon amendments: Adds glucagon to the list of medicines that schools may stock for emergency use and use under standing orders; passed 71–0.
- SB 237 (first substitute) — Utah Communications Authority amendments / 911 modernization: House sponsor said the measure streamlines 911 dispatch connectivity and passed 69–0.
- SB 260 — Individual Digital Identity amendments: Sets principles for any future state-endorsed digital identity program (privacy, no tracking, age verification and voluntary use); passed 68–0.
- SB 31 (first substitute) — Refugee Services amendments: Codified a Department of Workforce Services office that had functioned since 2008; passed 67–0.
- SB 202 (second substitute) — Property Tax revisions: Implements a range of process, notification and appeals reforms including electronic submissions and clerk reporting; passed 70–1.
- SB 241 (second substitute) — Limited Purpose Local Government amendments: Changes to public infrastructure districts and basic special districts; passed 58–14.
- SB 216 (third substitute) — Environmental Quality amendments: Includes a coordinating clause with HB 249 (nuclear power amendments) and passed 59–11.
- SB 24 (first substitute) — Child abuse and torture amendments: Creates an offense for aggravated child torture and includes mandatory minimum penalties for those convictions; passed 69–2.
- SB 195 (fifth substitute) — Transportation amendments: House adopted substitute language and allocated funds for selected transportation projects; passed 60–14.
- Numerous other bills and committee reports were read, circled, amended or moved to rules and consent calendars during the day; the floor also adopted multiple committee reports and referred bills to the Senate or rules as noted on the record.
This summary covers bills with recorded roll-call outcomes on March 4. Many other bills were read for first reference, placed on calendars, or circled for later consideration; refer to the House clerk’s official calendar for a complete list and full bill texts.
