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House advances multiple bills to Senate; floor records unanimous and near-unanimous votes on several measures
Summary
The Utah House on a February 1991 floor day passed a bundle of bills and resolutions and sent them to the Senate. Several measures cleared the House unanimously or by large margins, including a littering penalty bill, rules updates and multiple business and county finance measures.
The Utah House of Representatives used a busy floor session in February 1991 to move a series of bills and resolutions toward final action by the Senate.
Key outcomes: House joint resolution 11 (read three times) passed 67-0 and will be forwarded to the Senate. House concurrent resolution 4 on equalization in public-education funding passed 65-0 as amended. The House rules update (HR 5) passed 68-0. Substitute House Bill 119, raising the minimum fine and enabling signage as a deterrent for littering, passed 68-0. Business-registration reform (HB137) passed 63-2. House Bill 38 (municipal-type services and county budgeting) passed 65-0 and will be transmitted to the Senate. Multiple other bills (including HB123, HB137, HB302–306 and a set of assignments to committees) were adopted or referred to committee for further consideration.
Why it matters: The votes advance bills that change how counties budget for municipal services, update administrative rules, increase littering penalties and alter business registration penalties and filing procedures. Several bills now await Senate consideration or subsequent bonding and appropriations steps that may trigger later fiscal effects.
What’s next: Bills referred to the Senate or to specific standing committees will be considered in those bodies; measures that raise potential state costs (notably education and capital projects) may be affected by later bonding or appropriations decisions. The House also used suspension rules and 'circle' motions to hold several bills for amendment or for timing reasons.
Votes and actions recorded on the floor were taken as shown in the House journal entries read into the record; tallies above reflect the counts announced on the floor during the February 1991 session.
