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House advances education and tax measures; committee reports place multiple bills on second/third reading calendars
Summary
On Jan. 17 the Utah House adopted numerous committee reports and advanced several bills to the Senate, including HB 106 (applied technology coordination, 68-0), HB 2 (education technology amendments, 67-0) and HB 139 (corporate tax technical amendments, 70-0). Several other bills were referred to committees or calendars for further consideration.
The Utah House cleared a batch of committee reports and moved several bills forward on Jan. 17, approving amendments and sending measures to the Senate or to the third-reading and consent calendars.
Key floor actions included adoption of committee reports that placed bills such as HB 58, HJR 3, HCR 1, HB 64 and HB 34 onto the second/third reading and consent calendars. Representative Jordan Tanner presented multiple State & Local Affairs committee recommendations and the House adopted the committee report by motion.
On specific bills, Representative Wright explained and moved amendments to HB 106 (applied technology education coordination). The House adopted the amendments and passed HB 106, recorded at 68 yes and 0 no, sending it to the Senate.
Representative Garn presented HB 2 (education technology amendments), which moves the ETI project office to the State Office of Education and creates the Utah Education Network to coordinate public and higher-education telecom needs. Debate was waived and the House recorded a passage of HB 2 with 67 yes and 0 no votes.
Representative Valentine described HB 139 as a technical corporate-tax cleanup bill adopted without controversy; the House recorded a 70-0 vote and forwarded it to the Senate. The House also read a long list of newly introduced bills (HB 178–HB 189) and referred them to the Rules Committee for first reading.
Several committee chairs reported favorable recommendations on transportation, judiciary, energy and health bills (HB 22, HB 44, HB 36, HB 16, HB 52, HB 23 among them) and the body adopted those committee reports by voice vote, placing those bills on the appropriate calendars for second or third reading.
