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Utah House forwards a slate of bills to the Senate in a brisk floor session
Summary
The Utah House advanced multiple bills on Feb. 29, 2008, by concurrence and consent including digital breathalyzer certificates, child-welfare recodification, prison-postsecondary funding changes and several administrative bills; most measures passed unanimously or by clear margins and were referred to the Senate for further action.
The Utah House opened its Feb. 29 floor session with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance before moving through a packed concurrence and consent calendar that sent a string of bills to the Senate.
Representative Bigelow told members the chamber would consolidate education-related bills into a single omnibus measure and said tax items would be handled similarly to make amendment management easier. The procedural change was presented as staff-driven and intended to preserve members’ ability to offer amendments while reducing drafting conflicts.
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