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Votes at a glance: key bills the Utah Senate passed on Day 43
Summary
The Utah Senate considered dozens of measures on Day 43 of the 2025 legislative session. This roundup lists selected bills that received recorded roll-call votes on the floor, with outcomes and key details drawn from the Senate record.
The Senate recorded votes on a wide range of bills during Day 43 of the 2025 session. The following is a concise list of notable measures that received recorded roll-call votes on the Senate floor, with outcomes as announced by the presiding officer.
- House Concurrent Resolution 7 (recognizing Patriot's Day): Passed (26-0, 3 absent). The resolution memorializes Patriot's Day following a gubernatorial proclamation; the Senate voted to concur and recorded a unanimous vote of senators present.
- First substitute Senate Bill 39 (Education testing amendments): Passed (27-0, 2 absent). The Senate concurred with House changes and recorded a roll-call vote.
- Third substitute Senate Bill 106 (Utah-Ireland Trade Commission): Passed (27-0, 2 absent). Senators concurred with changes including a sunset date for the commission.
- Sixth substitute Senate Bill 142 (App Store Accountability Act): Passed (25-1, 3 absent). Sponsors said technical and stakeholder-driven changes were incorporated.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 202 (Property tax revisions): Passed (26-0, 3 absent). The sponsor described the substitute as a friendly change limiting county actions on green-belt reentry.
- Third substitute Senate Bill 216 (Environmental quality amendments): Passed (22-4, 3 absent). The sponsor said the substitute prioritized radioactive waste expenditure and coordinated with House bill 249.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 241 (Limited purpose local government amendments): Passed (25-2, 2 absent).
- Forced substitute House Bill 58 (Building inspector and official licensing and related updates): Passed under suspension of rules (27-0, 2 absent). The bill extends licensing to building officials and private home inspectors and requires data collection coordination with the Building Code Commission.
- Second substitute House Bill 354 (Criminal justice/data improvements): Passed (27-0, 2 absent). The bill focuses on data collection and statewide reporting to improve the criminal justice data set.
- House Bill 2 (Public education budget amendments): Passed under suspension of rules (23-0, 6 absent). The bill included an ongoing $47.4 million appropriation for direct salary increases for licensed educators, scholarship expansions, one-time capital and systems funding, a transfer into flexible allocation funding, and multiple statutory adjustments described on the floor. Specific floor-presented figures included: - $47,400,000 ongoing for direct salary increases for licensed educators (a $1,000 adjustment plus employer-paid benefits). - $44,000,000 to expand student choice scholarship funding ($40,000,000 ongoing with $20,000,000 of one-time offset in FY 2026). - $33,500,000 one-time from the Public Education Economic Stabilization Account for capital and program items.
- Third substitute House Bill 249 (Electrical energy development provisions, focused on nuclear and large projects): Passed (22-6, 1 absent). The bill establishes a state office and an investment fund to coordinate development of large electrical projects; Senate debate highlighted local-control concerns and an outstanding fiscal note.
- Third substitute House Bill 65 (Firefighter cancer amendments): Passed (25-0, 4 absent). The bill expands the list of cancers presumed to arise from firefighting service and funds screening and training elements; sponsors described a fiscal note of approximately $3.7 million for implementation.
- Other measures that received floor action during the day included multiple committee reports returned to the Rules Committee and a series of committee-recommended substitutes placed on calendars; several of those measures will proceed through the House and Senate steps as noted on the floor.
Votes and next steps
Where the Senate recorded a floor vote, the president directed the bills to be returned to the House for further consideration or signature as appropriate. Several bills passed the Senate under suspension of the rules; sponsors and floor leaders noted that final fiscal notes or coordinating clauses may be completed in the House or during subsequent committee steps.
