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House advances a slate of bills on governance, transportation, health and elections
Summary
On a packed calendar the House moved a number of bills: SB5 on executive compensation, SB231 on transportation governance (UTA audit), SB151 on trademark protections, SB20 municipal government amendments, and SB193 election-law changes all cleared the House in separate floor actions.
The Utah House also considered and advanced multiple other bills and concurrence items during the same floor session.
Senate Bill 5 (Executive Compensation Revisions) was approved after brief discussion; the House recorded 53 yes, 4 no and 18 absent. Representative David Clark answered questions and noted the measure adjusts executive compensation and brings the state auditor's salary closer to 95 percent of the last constitutional office level.
On transportation governance, the House passed Senate Bill 231 after adopting an amendment to emphasize pollution mitigation. Representative Harper said the bill requires UTA to hire an internal auditor and makes the Transportation Commissioner a voting member of the board; the House passed the bill 67–0.
Representative Dougal led discussion on second substitute Senate Bill 151, the Trademark Protection Act amendments, which would create an electronic registry and add certain state-level infringement remedies for targeted online advertising; the House adopted the second substitute and passed the measure 66–3.
The House also approved task-force product Senate Bill 20 (Municipal Government Amendments), which reorganizes statutes governing local forms of government and clarifies processes for changing municipal governance; that bill passed 64–8. The House approved Senate Bill 193, an Attorney General–introduced set of election-law changes that increased penalties for specified election offenses and clarified registration residency rules; SB193 passed unanimously 73–0.
Several concurrence calendar items returned from the Senate were also concurred with, including first substitute House Bill 106 (Clean Air and Efficient Vehicle Tax Incentives), which includes tax incentives up to $2,500 for qualifying compressed natural gas vehicles and retains other incentives for conversions and clean fuels.
Most bills were forwarded to the Senate or returned to the Senate for signature as the House completed its third-reading calendar.
