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Votes at a glance: key House floor actions, Feb. 20, 1996
Summary
A roundup of roll-call outcomes and brief descriptions for bills the House considered Feb. 20, including wildlife licensing, juvenile offender amendments, the daycare licensing measure, retirement code fixes and adult-protective services updates.
The Utah House recorded the following roll-call outcomes during its Feb. 20 floor session:
- HB285 (Wildlife Licensing Amendments): Passed, 68–0. Sponsor explained code-numbering of licenses, removal of disability references from license text, repeal of the five-day fishing license and habitat-authorization changes (restricted fund fiscal note noted).
- HB354 (Serious Youth Offender Amendments): Passed, 68–2. Amendment clarifies jurisdiction for juveniles who commit offenses in secure facilities to avoid being moved to adult jail and back to the street.
- SB89 (Marriage between first cousins under conditions): Passed, 55–13. House read and forwarded the senate bill which allows certain marriages between first cousins if age and reproductive-capacity conditions are met.
- HB346 (Joy Riding Penalty): Passed, 72–0. Sponsors said the bill allows courts to assess penalties to cover damages caused during joyriding.
- HB226 (State Employee Exceptional Performance Program): Passed, 67–0. Second substitute replaces the current program with a more objective evaluation and aims to include remote and night-shift employees.
- HB156 (Retirement Office Amendments, first substitute): Passed, recorded in the floor transcript as 66–4. Technical corrections across multiple retirement systems and anti-spiking language were adopted.
- HB125 (Daycare Licensing Amendments): Passed, 42–29. The House closed a loophole for short-duration care and adopted an amendment to require agency review of administrative Rule R501-10.
- HB98 (Adult Protective Services amendments): Passed, 66–0. The bill updates terminology, defines elder abuse at age 65 and moves certain penalties to the criminal code.
- HB108 (School and Institutional Trust Lands Management Act amendment): Passed, 68–0. The bill extends right-of-way dates, authorizes consultants within the existing budget and clarifies trustee procedures.
Several other committee reports and consent-calendar items were adopted without extended floor debate; the House recessed at the close of business.
These tallies and short descriptions are taken directly from the House floor transcript for Feb. 20, 1996.
