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Utah Senate advances dozens of bills; many pass on unanimous or near-unanimous votes
Summary
On Day 24 of the 2025 legislative session, the Utah Senate approved or moved dozens of bills across committees and on the floor. Several items passed on third reading with unanimous or near-unanimous roll calls; others were substituted or tabled for fiscal review.
The Utah Senate acted on a large slate of legislation during Day 24 of the 2025 session, approving multiple committee recommendations and passing several bills on third reading while tabling others for fiscal review.
The floor approved committee assignments, accepted multiple committee reports and advanced a long list of bills to standing committees. On the third-reading calendar, senators voted to pass a number of bills, including housekeeping measures, tax code amendments, and public-safety and education-related bills. Several measures were substituted on the floor to add required studies or narrow their scope before final consideration.
Highlights and formal outcomes taken from floor votes and motions recorded during the session include the following (bill descriptions reflect the floor presentation):
- House Bill 146 (mammography amendments) — Passed on unanimous vote. Tally recorded on the board while in session: 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent. Outcome: approved; to be signed by the president and returned to the House for the speaker's signature.
- Senate Joint Resolution 1 (dissolving the North Logan and Hyde Park justice courts) — Passed by roll call: 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent. Outcome: approved; to be transmitted to the House for consideration.
- House Bill 26 (road jurisdiction amendments; annual cleanup for state highways) — Passed on third reading: 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent. Outcome: approved.
- Third substitute House Bill 44 (airport notice amendments) — Passed on third reading: 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent. Outcome: approved.
- First substitute House Bill 25 (retirement/URS-related interim study modifications; added actuarial study requirement) — Passed on third reading: 25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 55 (county office meeting location amendments) — Passed on third reading: 25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 64 (public official bonding / risk insurance) — Passed on third reading: 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent. Outcome: approved.
- Third substitute House Bill 69 (government records and information amendments; narrowed by substitute to ballot-specific information) — Passed on third reading: 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent. Outcome: approved.
- Fourth substitute House Bill 60 (state income tax amendments, clarified interest and extended credit sunset) — Passed third reading and then tabled on third for fiscal impact review: recorded as receiving 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent; motion thereafter to table on third prevailed. Outcome: motion to table; bill placed on table on third-reading calendar for fiscal consideration.
- Second substitute House Bill 20 (property tax recodification) — Passed third reading: 25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent. Outcome: approved.
- First substitute House Bill 61 (tax withholding / mineral production clarifications) — Passed third reading: 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent; motion to table on third for fiscal impact passed. Outcome: tabled on third-reading calendar.
- House Bill 13 (extortion amendments to include threats to distribute counterfeit intimate images) — Passed third reading: 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 62 (property tax application/filing clarifications) — Passed third reading: 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 67 (precious metals investment and administration amendments) — Passed third reading: 26 yeas, 1 nay, 2 absent; subsequently tabled on third for fiscal impact. Outcome: motion to table passed.
- House Bill 97 (private postsecondary education modifications; cancellation/fee provisions) — Passed on third reading: 28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 108 (fraudulent deed cleanup amendments) — Passed on third reading: 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent. Outcome: approved.
- House Bill 200 (outdoor recreation amendments) — Passed on third reading: recorded as 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: approved.
- Several other committee reports and bills were read and assigned to committees; additional bills were introduced to the rules committee from the floor.
Why this matters: The volume of actions reflects the early-session push to move committee recommendations onto the second- and third-reading calendars. Several bills were substituted on the floor to add clarifying language, required actuarial studies, or to narrow the scope of prohibitions; a number of bills were tabled for fiscal analysis despite receiving initial floor approval.
Votes at a glance: This session included a mix of unanimous or near-unanimous approvals and a small number of bills tabled after third-reading passage for fiscal review. Items tabled on third should be expected to return to the calendar once fiscal staff complete their analyses.
What’s next: Bills that passed the Senate will be transmitted to the House where required; bills placed on the table on third-reading remain pending fiscal review. Committees will continue to report additional bills to the floor in the coming days.
