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Utah Senate passes package of House and Senate measures on elections, taxation, health and consumer protections
Summary
The Utah Senate approved a batch of bills and a joint resolution, including changes to deceased voter rolls, CCJJ reporting, land‑use advisory board sunsets, consumer‑protection rules and measures aimed at saving energy in state buildings. Most measures passed on unanimous or near‑unanimous votes; several received brief debate.
The Utah State Senate adjourned after approving a series of House and Senate measures on policy areas including elections, criminal justice reporting, tax policy and consumer protections.
Senators voted to pass first substitute House Bill 12, which Senator McHale described as creating "uniformity among the counties" to ensure deceased voter rolls are cleaned up in a timely way; the bill passed with 25 yea, 0 nay and 4 absent. The chamber also approved House Bill 44, directing the state Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) to report to the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee on oversight, reentry and probation and parole supervision; Senator Vickers presented the measure and it passed 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent.
On taxation and local government, House Bill 28 extended the sunset for the land‑use and eminent…
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