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Votes at a glance: House concurs on two bills, returns several Senate measures
Summary
The House concurred with Senate amendments on House Bills 158 (school-district reporting change) and 57 (narrowed agricultural-products exemption) and carried procedural motions to return multiple Senate-origin bills, including SB197 and SB219, to the Senate calendar.
The Utah House completed a sequence of procedural and substantive actions on multiple measures during the floor session.
Concurrences and returns: The House concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 158 (school district amendments); Representative Richard Bradford said the Senate changes were technical and noted one substantive alteration: the report deadline in the bill was changed from August to November. The motion to concur carried and House Bill 158, as amended, was returned to the Senate for the president's signature.
Representative Fox moved the House concur with Senate amendments to House Bill 57, which narrowed the definition of "agricultural products" to raw grain transported by a farmer from farm to market; the motion carried on a voice vote and the bill was returned to the Senate.
Procedural returns: The House received a Senate communication requesting the return of Senate Bill 197 (Utah Conservation Corps) to the Senate; the House moved to return SB197 and the motion carried. The clerk also presented a list of Senate-passed measures that were transmitted to the House for further action, and the committee on rules' report recommending a set of Senate bills be placed on the third-reading calendar was adopted by voice vote.
Related motion: The House moved to return Senate Bill 219 (money laundering and precursor chemical violations amendments) to the Senate calendar; that motion also carried on a voice vote. The transcript records these procedural outcomes but does not provide roll-call tallies for the voice votes recorded.
What happens next: The affected bills were either returned to the Senate or added to calendars for later reading; final enactment, amendments and any roll-call tallies are found in subsequent floor or Senate records.
