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House handles committee reports, transmits several bills to Senate and unanimously passes stream-alteration bill
Summary
The Utah House received Senate communications, adopted numerous committee reports and referred bills to committees. The House passed House Bill 133 (emergency stream alteration procedures) unanimously, 71–0, and placed several bills on the third-reading calendar.
The House floor session opened with routine transmittals from the Senate; the clerk read a sequence of Senate messages that included substitutes and passed Senate bills such as SB39 (driver license requirements), SB53 (recycled assault), SB57 (computer authentication of medical records), SB68 (procedures for foreign-born adoptees), SB84 (statewide use detention guidelines) and SB89 (illegal credit card use). The Speaker then announced referral of those Senate bills to the Rules Committee.
Several committee reports were adopted and their bills placed on the third-reading calendar. Chairs reported favorably on measures from Health & Environment, Energy, Natural Resources & Agriculture, Judiciary, Revenue & Taxation, and other committees; the body adopted the committee reports by voice vote.
Representative Lee Allen introduced House Bill 133 to clarify emergency procedures for the state engineer to authorize stream-channel alterations. He said the bill would correct statutory and administrative rule inconsistencies and restore an emergency permitting process that spares residents unnecessary duplicative federal-state processes. Voting was recorded: "House bill number 133 ... having received 71 affirmative votes, 0 negative votes, passed this house," and the bill was referred to the Senate for its consideration.
The clerk also listed numerous house bills (HB281–HB289 and others) and a house joint resolution on business closures and a school food-service resolution; many of those items were placed on the third-reading calendar for later consideration. The House concluded the day's business and adjourned until 10 a.m. the following day.
