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Utah House adopts committee reports, advances multiple bills to third-reading calendar; HB226 substitution reported and session recessed
Summary
The Utah House adopted a string of committee reports and advanced several bills to the second or third-reading calendars. The Judiciary Committee reported a substitute on HB 226 with a 9-3-1 committee vote; SB 15 was referred to Rules because of fiscal impact. The House recessed over technical problems.
The Utah House of Representatives adopted a series of committee reports Wednesday and moved multiple measures to the second- or third-reading calendars, the presiding officer announced.
Representative Agard successfully moved to adopt the Public Utilities and Technology Committee report on HB 133 (natural gas technician certification); the motion passed by voice vote and the bill was ordered read for the second time and placed on the third-reading calendar. Similar committee-report adoptions sent HB 99, HB 128 and HB 125 (from Judiciary), HB 262 and HB 271 (from Education), SB 50, SB 97 and related health measures, and a set of Business and Labor and Quasi-Governmental Entities bills to the appropriate calendars or the consent calendar.
The reading clerk reported that the Judiciary Committee recommended a substitute on House Bill 226, a termination-of-parental-rights amendment. The clerk said the Judiciary Committee’s vote on that bill was 9 yes, 3 no and 1 absent. Representative Matt Throckmorton requested substitution for HB 226 during the reading-clerk presentation.
The Health and Human Services Committee’s report included first substitute SB 15 (an organ-donation checkoff). The House read the bill for the second time but referred SB 15 to the Rules Committee because the reading clerk indicated it carried a fiscal impact.
Representative Curtis was granted personal privilege earlier in the morning to introduce his grandfather, Paris Jensen, who was celebrated in the House gallery on his 100th birthday. "I just wanna formally introduce you to my grandfather, Paris Jensen," Curtis said during his remarks.
Proceedings were interrupted near the end of the transcript by technical problems affecting computers and recording systems. The presiding officer recessed the House for 10 minutes; the motion to recess passed by voice vote and the House recessed until 10:10.
The House did not record roll-call tallies for the committee-report adoptions on the floor in the transcript provided; those actions were recorded as passed by voice vote.
