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House passes a package of Senate bills on appropriations, air quality and agency reorganization
Summary
On final passage the House approved multiple Senate bills including emergency medical training funding, Department of Social Services reorganization, diesel emissions inspections, tourism and other measures. Vote tallies and brief descriptions are listed for quick reference.
The Utah House completed a run of final actions on a range of Senate bills. Below are the measures taken on the floor and the roll-call tallies as announced by the clerk.
- Senate Bill 265 (general government amendments; funds high-school emergency medical training from the Victims Reparation Fund, 15% allocation under Section 26-8-5): passed 63–2.
- Senate Bill 249 (Department of Social Services reorganization; renames department to Department of Human Services; creates Office of Social Services; makes office director status changes): passed 69–1.
- Substitute Senate Bill 193 (diesel emission inspections; enables county diesel emissions programs, limited to opacity tests as amended): passed 53–12.
- Senate Bill 183 (repeal of bail collection program at Office of Recovery Services and related fixes): passed 57–0.
- Senate Bill 163 (UCC check amendments clarifying 'paid in full' notation does not conclusively settle an account): passed 50–13.
- Senate Bill 175 (tourism, recreation and convention facilities; includes funding options and a deleted setup-tax provision on amendment): passed 47–20.
- Senate Bill 104 (designates Indian ricegrass as state grass): passed 38–25.
- Senate Bill 256 (supplemental appropriations): passed (clerk announced passage during floor sequence; see journal for roll-call detail).
Where the clerk announced a specific roll-call tally on the floor, that tally is noted above. For bills where the transcript records passage without a clear final numeric tally in the floor excerpt, the House announcement of passage is reported and the journal entry should be consulted for the official roll-call record.
The House also took supplemental appropriations actions, considered conference-committee appointments on capital facilities bills, and received Senate communications on multiple measures during the session.
