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Utah House advances wide range of measures; several bills pass and are sent to Senate
Summary
On Feb. 26, 1997, the Utah House passed a slate of bills on the consent calendar and by roll-call votes — including measures on guardianship services, hospital financing, water easements and hunting unit rules — and forwarded them to the Senate for consideration.
The Utah House of Representatives used its Feb. 26, 1997 floor session to move a large number of bills forward, approving measures on guardianship and conservatorship services, hospital financing, property and water rights, and revisions to hunting-unit rules.
House action on the consent calendar included unanimous or lopsided passage of several bills. Notable outcomes recorded on the floor included: House Bill 329 (harmful materials to minors) passed on the consent calendar; House Bill 305 (prescriptive easements for water conveyance) passed by recorded voice and was sent to the Senate with a recorded tally of 69 yes, 0 no; House Bill 376 (trespass and vandalism at abandoned mines) and HB368 (private-investigator licensing amendments) were also forwarded. Representative votes were recorded on multiple items listed from the consent calendar.
On measures that drew floor debate, the House recorded the following outcomes: House Bill 331 (hospital bed tax extension), described by its sponsor as a mechanism that generates up to $6.5 million in state authority and roughly $19.5 million in federal Medicaid matching funds, passed the House by recorded tally (recorded on the floor as 51 yes, 15 no) and will proceed to the Senate. House Bill 300 (substitute) expanding access to guardianship and conservatorship services for elderly and disabled people without family oversight passed on the floor (67 yes, 0 no recorded) and was sent to the Senate.
Other measures passed and forwarded to the Senate included House Bill 107 (standards for certifying indigency for appointed counsel), House Bill 115 (cooperative wildlife management unit rules, recorded as 65 yes, 4 no), and a number of additional bills the House 'circled' or deferred for later action after procedural motions.
The House also adopted language clarifying the intent of House Bill 119 (oil and gas royalty remedies), to confirm that royalty owners may pursue judicial redress without first exhausting administrative remedies. Several bills were temporarily circled (deferred) after debate on amendments to sales tax exemptions; leaders said circled bills would remain on the board unless leaders later moved to wipe them.
What happens next: Passed House measures will be transmitted to the Senate for its consideration; circled items will remain on the House board unless leadership later moves to remove them.
Votes and tallies cited here are the recorded floor announcements on Feb. 26, 1997.
