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Senate considers and transmits multiple bills to the House; conference committee reports and concurrence actions completed
Summary
On floor motions the Senate adopted conference committee reports, concurred in House amendments on numerous bills, and transmitted a set of bills to the House for signatures. The chamber disposed of a broad concurrence calendar including transportation, judicial, taxation and professional licensing measures.
The Utah Senate completed a broad concurrence calendar on March 6, adopting conference committee reports and transmitting multiple bills to the House for their signature or for further consideration.
Key actions included adoption of the joint conference committee report on seventh substitute Senate Bill 195 (transportation amendments) and passage of that substitute on a roll call. Senate leadership recorded the bill as passing the body and returning it to the House after a roll call showing the body’s recorded votes (the conference report and passage were adopted on the floor). Senator Harper moved adoption of the conference committee report before the passage vote.
The Senate also recorded the transmission of several House bills which had concurred in Senate amendments or adopted conference reports, listing them for the record: second substitute House Bill 21 (criminal code recodification and cross references); second substitute House Bill 75 (reauthorization of administrative rules); third substitute House Bill 100 (food security amendments); second substitute House Bill 488 (Federalism Amendments); and multiple other Senate substitutes returned by the House for further consideration including first substitute Senate Bill 203 (judicial standing amendments), third substitute Senate Bill 204 (right to appeal amendments), and fifth substitute Senate Bill 333 (major sporting events venue financing amendments).
Other concurrence votes the Senate completed on the floor included first substitute Senate Bill 15 (certified public accountant licensing amendments), first substitute Senate Bill 22 (state employee benefit amendments), first substitute Senate Bill 47 (sales and use tax remittance amendments), second substitute Senate Bill 256 (general government and appropriations amendments), and numerous additional measures that the floor calendar called for final action and transmittal.
Several of these floor actions were recorded by roll call with counts announced on the chamber floor and will be returned to the House for signature or further consideration. Where conference committee chairs signed reports the Senate adopted those reports and then completed the required passage votes. The chamber also received and announced conference committee reports the House provided earlier in the day.
Ending: The Senate completed a heavy concurrence calendar, advancing transportation, judicial and fiscal bills and returning them to the House; individual bills recorded on the floor will now be processed through the House for final action or signature.
