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House adopts multiple committee reports, sends bills to rules committee and recesses for caucuses
Summary
The Utah House approved several committee reports, placed numerous bills on the rules or third-reading calendars and then recessed for caucuses and lunch; motions to adopt committee recommendations passed on voice votes with no recorded roll calls in the transcript.
The Utah House on the floor approved a string of committee reports and moved numerous bills to the rules committee or onto the third-reading calendar, then recessed for member caucuses and lunch.
Unidentified Speaker (S3), reading committee recommendations, told the body that the Health and Environment Committee recommended substitute Senate Bill 78 (a radiology practical technician licensing amendment), House Bill 461 (certification of wastewater treatment operators), and several other measures, and recommended placement of Senate Bills 134 and 149 on the consent calendar. Representative David Hunter was identified in the report as committee chairman. "The health and environment committee reports that they will recommend ..." (as read aloud on the floor).
The floor adopted the committee report after an unidentified member moved to adopt. Similar reports followed from the Education Committee, Business, Labor and Economic Development Committee, Judiciary Committee and the Revenue and Tax Committee. The Business, Labor and Economic Development Committee recommended approval of House Bill 237 (trademarks and service marks) and House Bill 282 (LPG licensure), among others; Representative Yardley and other committee chairs moved their committees' reports and the body approved them by voice vote.
Later, the Rules Committee asked the House to suspend aspects of the rules to allow a set of bills (including House Bills 280, 237, 464, 465 and substitute House Bill 252) to be read for the second time and placed directly on the third-reading calendar. The presiding officer announced the House had approved that request and placed the listed bills on the third-reading calendar.
Procedural motions were handled by voice vote throughout the morning session. Early in the proceedings the presiding officer said a prior vote had received "around 49 affirmative votes and 20 negative votes." A motion to recess until 2:00 p.m. was made later in the session, members responded "aye," and the House recessed for caucuses and lunch.
No roll-call vote tallies or recorded individual votes for the committee adoption motions appear in the provided transcript excerpt; outcomes were reported on the floor as adopted or placed on the rules/third-reading calendar. The session also included several brief announcements and acknowledgments, including distribution of a notepad from the Utah Optometric Association that one member noted had been delivered under his name. "This is from the Utah Optometric Association," one speaker said on the floor.
The House was scheduled to reconvene after a recess at 2:00 p.m. and members indicated caucus meetings would begin earlier in the afternoon.
