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House approves a batch of committee reports and consent calendar items
Summary
The Utah House adopted several committee reports and approved multiple consent-calendar measures on Feb. 14, sending a group of mostly noncontroversial bills to the Senate with recorded tallies noted in the floor record.
During a busy floor session the Utah House adopted a sequence of standing-committee reports and consent-calendar items. Several bills were approved with recorded tallies and will be transmitted to the Senate for further action.
Notable consent-calendar outcomes recorded on the floor include:
- House Bill 231 (apportionment by county commissioners) — passed 61–0 and referred to the Senate. - Substitute House Bill 248 (temporary amusement-device safety) — passed 56–7 and referred to the Senate. - House Bill 367 (privatization policy board per diem language) — passed 60–2 and referred to the Senate. - House Bill 355 (Utah coordinate system recording amendments) — passed 63–0 and referred to the Senate. - House Bill 22 (Occupational Information Coordination Act) — passed 61–5 and referred to the Senate.
Most of these items were presented by committee chairs or sponsors with brief explanations and were placed on the consent calendar before being approved with voice or recorded votes. Sponsors emphasized administrative fixes, statutory clarifications, and local-government or public-safety technical changes; no individual item on the consent calendar generated the sort of extended policy debate reserved for larger bills.
