Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Legislative Floor Actions topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
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.
Other measures acted upon included telehealth amendments in House Bill 154, which adopted an amendment deleting problematic prescribing language and passed third reading; a concurrent resolution urging federal re-evaluation of wildfire prevention funding (HCR14); HB104 allowing counties to use emissions compliance fee revenues for air-quality programs; and HB184 addressing contraband-device destruction procedures. The Senate also debated and passed a tax provisions bill with added reporting requirements (second substitute SB132).
Votes at a glance
- Second Substitute House Bill 90 (insurance opioid regulation): recorded on floor as passing (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent). - House Bill 154 (telehealth amendments, as amended): 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent. - House Concurrent Resolution 14 (wildfire prevention funding request): 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent. - House Bill 104 (motor vehicle emissions revenue use): 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent. - Second Substitute House Bill 130 (cannabinoid research; passed, detailed in separate article): 27 yea, 1 nay, 1 absent. - House Bill 48 (wildlife species introduction amendments): 24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent (moved to third reading calendar). - House Bill 184 (contraband device destruction): 24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent (moved to third reading calendar). - House Bill 161 (pedestrian safety amendments): 24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent (moved to third reading calendar). - Second Substitute Senate Bill 132 (tax provisions amendments with reporting to GOED): passed by recorded vote (28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent). - House Bill 25 (tax incentive review amendments): 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent (moved to third reading calendar).
Several bills were also moved to the third reading calendar for future action (for example, HB23 on the residential renewable energy tax credit and HB24 Student Prosperity Savings Program), and one measure (first substitute HB24) was tabled on third reading because of fiscal concerns. The Senate adjourned at the close of the day.
The Senate will enroll and transmit bills that passed third reading to the receiving chamber as required; bills held or tabled for fiscal reasons will await budgetary review and scheduling.
