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House advances wide consent calendar, forwarding multiple bills to the Senate
Summary
On the consent calendar the House approved a package of mostly noncontroversial bills (workers' compensation for Olympic volunteers, telephone-fraud changes, background checks for childcare workers, voter-registration clarifications and others), adopted committee reports, and assigned several measures to standing committees.
The Utah House took rapid action on its consent calendar, approving a series of bills and sending them to the Senate.
Representative Martin R. Stephens explained House Bill 124, which permits an Olympic Winter Games organizing committee approved by the Utah Sports Authority to purchase workers' compensation insurance through the state fund; he said there would be "no cost…
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