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Midday floor roundup: House clears a slate of senate bills and concurrent resolutions
Summary
During the Feb. 19 floor session the Utah House considered and passed a series of Senate bills and resolutions with limited debate, including measures on collector vehicle titling, disclosure rules for psychologically impacted property, theft of cable services, independent agency audits, appraiser registration, revenue classification, and sentencing guidelines.
The Utah House moved through an extensive list of Senate bills and concurrent resolutions on Feb. 19, recording a series of votes and several quick presentations before devoting extended time to a few contested items.
Clerk announcements and brief sponsor remarks preceded recorded votes on multiple items. Among the measures the House took action on during the morning and early afternoon:
- Senate Bill 60 (optional titling for collector motor vehicles): Sponsor explained the bill would permit a non-highway "horseless carriage" title for vehicles 20 years or older that are restored but not roadworthy; the House approved the measure with a recorded vote announced by the chair.
- Senate Bill 18 (disclosure for psychologically impacted property): Sponsor told the House the bill establishes that prior residency by an AIDS victim or a past homicide is not a "material fact" requiring disclosure unless the buyer asks; the House passed SB18 as amended.
- Senate Bill 48 (theft of cable television services): Sponsor outlined clarifying amendments that define intent, simplify language and reduce penalty classification to align theft of cable services with other theft-of-services offences; the House passed the amended bill unanimously.
- Senate Bill 86 (independent agency audits): Debate centered on an adopted amendment clarifying how auditor-performed compliance audits are funded; sponsors and opponents discussed constitutional concerns about mandating audits of independent agencies. The Bishop amendment clarifying funding was adopted and the bill passed.
- Substitute Senate Bill 20 (real estate appraiser registration): Sponsor presented the bill as a response to the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989; the bill establishes registration/certification categories for appraisers and a board, and includes a grandfather clause for current appraisers; the House passed the substitute bill.
- Other bills with brief presentations and recorded votes included measures on revenue classification, budgetary procedure amendments, criminal penalties for hazardous waste violations, audits of state land leases and permits, judicial amendments, sentencing guideline changes, and a concurrent resolution honoring Brighton High School's STARLab.
Clerk-read tallies and the speaker's announcements were used to close votes; most measures passed with comfortable margins or by voice vote when uncontested.
