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House Concurred With Senate on Bail Credit-Card Amendment; 53-0 Vote
Summary
The Utah House unanimously concurred with Senate amendments to the third substitute of House Bill 189, which allows credit cards to be used when posting bail and clarifies who pays processing fees. The motion to concur passed 53–0 and the bill will return to the Senate for signature.
The Utah House unanimously concurred with Senate amendments to the third substitute of House Bill 189 on March 2, approving language that allows credit cards to be used when posting bail and specifies who pays any processing fee. Voting closed with 53 yes votes and 0 no votes.
A floor speaker explained that the amendment "just specified who would pay the fee" if a defendant used a credit card to post bail. After brief procedural handling and the waiving of summation by Representative Lawrence for Smeaton, the House adopted the motion to concur and returned the bill to the Senate for the Speaker’s signature.
The action was procedural: the House agreed to the Senate’s technical amendments rather than holding the bill for amendment or conference. The House reading clerk recorded the concurrence and ordered the bill returned to the Senate for final signature.
Next steps: the bill returns to the Senate for the signature process as required by legislative procedure.
