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Votes at a glance: major House actions from Day 9 of the 1997 session
Summary
The House advanced numerous bills to the Senate and took procedural action on the consent calendar. Notable roll-call outcomes included the unanimous passage of HB 162 and HB 60, a funded appropriation for the Utah Summer Games, and several unanimous or near-unanimous votes on technical and policy bills.
The Utah House recorded a series of roll-call votes and procedural actions on the ninth day of the 1997 session. Highlights from the floor record:
- HB 162 (electronic meetings): Passed 70–0; sets statutory criteria for electronic/remote public meetings and anchor-location public access. - HB 60 (post-conviction remedies): Passed 70–0; sponsor indicated a revised fiscal note of $200,000 per year to fund counsel for certain post-conviction capital-case appeals. - HB 16 (Utah Summer Games appropriation): Motion to uncircle and passage recorded in transcript as 57–6 (record in transcript reads "3 57 yes votes and 6 no votes"); the bill would appropriate $100,000 from the general fund for FY 1998–99 to support Utah Summer Games through Southern Utah University’s advancement office. - HB 174 (dam-owner liability adjustments): Passed 69–0; adjusts liability for dam owners in recreational use scenarios when no fees are charged. - HB 44 (concurrent and consecutive sentencing clarification): Passed 69–0. - HB 148 (county option arts-tax technical corrections): Passed 68–2. - HB 197 (use of income tax revenues for higher education alignment): Passed 68–1. - HB 154 (property tax circuit breaker adjustments for seniors): Passed 70–0. - HB 40 (driver’s license kiosk pilot): Passed 71–0.
Procedural note: a rules/consent-calendar timing issue was discovered on the floor. The Speaker and clerk announced that several consent-calendar votes (including the earlier roll call for HB 209, the Legacy Loop designation) had been taken in violation of the House’s rule requiring three days of floor time on the consent calendar; those actions were removed from the record and those bills were returned to the calendar for consideration the next day.
Several bills were "circled" (set aside for later), and HB 31 (post-certified motor-vehicle safety investigators / special function officers) was circulated for further study after debate about pay grade and retirement benefits.
All vote counts and procedural outcomes are reported as recorded on the House floor transcript.
