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Senate advances wide third‑reading calendar, passes health, safety and tax measures
Summary
The Utah Senate moved a large third‑reading calendar forward, passing bills on opioid insurance measures, telehealth, wildfire prevention resolution, motor vehicle emissions revenue use, contraband-device destruction, pedestrian safety and a tax provisions package. Key roll-call tallies and next steps are listed.
The Utah State Senate spent its afternoon floor session advancing a broad third‑reading calendar, voting to move multiple bills and concurrent or joint resolutions forward — including measures on opioid regulation, telehealth, wildfire prevention, motor-vehicle emissions revenue use, contraband-device destruction, pedestrian safety and several tax and economic-development measures.
On public-health policy, the chamber passed Second Substitute House Bill 90, an insurance-focused opioid regulation measure advanced by Senator Vickers, which asks insurers whose plans renew on or after July 1, 2017, to adopt opioid-overdose-prevention practices; the bill passed on third reading by the recorded tally listed below.
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