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Votes at a glance: House advances multiple bills on consent calendar and third reading
Summary
On Feb. 22 the Utah House approved or referred a set of committee reports, resolutions, and bills including HCR 2 (63-5), HCR 14 (66-0), HB 21 (60-0), HB 145 (68-0), HB 4 (65-0), HB 18 (71-2), HB 162 (73-0) and HB 65 (60-3); several other measures were referred to standing committees for review.
Salt Lake City — The Utah House on Feb. 22 handled a slate of committee reports, third-reading items and referrals across a range of policy areas.
Key floor actions and recorded results included:
- HCR 2 (multiple uses of public lands): Passed, 63 affirmative, 5 negative. - HCR 14 (recognition of Weber State College): Passed, 66 affirmative, 0 negative; placed on the calendar for third reading and transmitted to the Senate. - HB 21 (POW license plate renewal exemption): Passed, 60 affirmative, 0 negative; sponsor said the change affects about 200 people by removing a renewal decal fee. - HB 145 (privileged-communication amendment on child-abuse testimony): Passed as amended, 68 affirmative, 0 negative. - HB 4 (state risk manager authority): Passed as amended, 65 affirmative, 0 negative. - Substitute HB 18 (high-level nuclear waste definition and siting language): Passed, 71 affirmative, 2 negative. - HB 162 (textbook supplemental appropriation with fee-waiver certification): Passed as amended, 73 affirmative, 0 negative. - HB 65 (minimum-wage rewrite): Passed as amended, roll-call recorded as 60 affirmative and 3 negative.
The Rules Committee also reported the assignment of numerous bills to standing committees across policy areas (business and labor, education, energy and natural resources, judiciary, government taxation, social services, state and local affairs, transportation/public safety), and the reading clerk introduced additional bills to the rules calendar.
Several other bills were placed on the third-reading calendar or 'circled' for later floor action; the House adjourned until 10 a.m. the next day.
