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House approves multiple consent-calendar measures including portability for human services and Good Samaritan protections
Summary
The House passed a package of consent-calendar bills: HB 52 (portability for health/human services funding), HB 50 (Good Samaritan Act expansion), HB 14 (electronic accident reports), HB 15 (criminal mischief correction), HB 48 (minor marriage permission change) and others — most by unanimous or lopsided voice/vote tallies and referred to the Senate.
During the morning session the House moved through a sequence of consent-calendar bills with two-minute sponsor presentations followed by recorded votes.
Representative David Hogue presented House Bill 52 to allow portability of certain health and human services funding and to extend a steering committee’s work; the Clerk reported the bill passed 59–0 and will be referred to the Senate.
Representative Richard M. Sidaway introduced House Bill 50 to extend Good Samaritan Act protections to trained users of automated external defibrillators; he cited Utah Code section 26-8-7.5 as the relevant provision. The bill passed 59–0.
Representative Rebecca D. Lockhart explained House Bill 14, which allows peace officers to file motor-vehicle accident reports electronically; the bill passed 65–0.
Representative Carl Saunders presented House Bill 48, narrowing parental permission for a minor’s marriage to the custodial parent in custody situations; the bill passed and will be referred to the Senate.
Other consent and routine items passed on the consent calendar or were placed on the third-reading calendar (including HB 15, HB 172, HB 192 and a set of introductory bills and committee referrals); the Rules Committee report listing additional assignments was later adopted.
Taken together, the consent calendar moved numerous technical and policy items forward to the Senate or to later reading with recorded votes noted by the Clerk.
