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House advances dozens of mostly technical bills on consent calendar; votes at a glance
Summary
On Feb. 9 the Utah House approved a long consent calendar, passing a series of technical and policy bills (including restitution, DNA testing funding, farmers market exemptions and a theater-recording prohibition) and referring them to the Senate.
The Utah House advanced a large consent calendar on Friday, Feb. 9, passing a series of bills ranging from criminal-code cleanups to agriculture exemptions and funding clarifications.
The most immediate actions were procedural votes that moved bills to the Senate or approved technical changes. First Substitute House Bill 147 (restitution amendments) — described by Representative Kevin Garn as requiring courts to reduce unpaid restitution or fines to judgment and forward them to the Office of State Debt Collection, and preventing juvenile expungement while restitution remains unpaid — passed and was referred to the Senate. “The first thing it does is it mandates that at the time the court terminates formal jurisdiction that any unpaid restitution orders or fines would be reduced to judgment,” Representative Garn said.
Other consent-calendar items that passed included:
- Senate Bill 86 (repeal of libel and slander provisions): Passed 70-0. Representative Wyatt argued the measure removes provisions the state…
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