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House adopts committee reports, advances multiple bills and places items on consent calendar
Summary
The Utah House received communications from the Senate, adopted standing committee reports, and approved several bills for second and third readings or consent calendar placement, including the technical amendment and passage of HB92 (garnishment) and passage of Senate Bill 225 on the calendar motion.
The Utah House spent the floor session receiving communications from the Senate, adopting standing committee reports and advancing numerous bills to subsequent reading calendars or the consent calendar.
Secretary of the Senate Annette B. Moore transmitted a list of House bills approved by the Senate for the Speaker's signature and several Senate substitutes for consideration. The Business and Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Public Utilities and Technology committees each presented reports recommending replacements, substitutions, and consent calendar placement for a range of bills. Committee chairs cited bills including first substitute HB168 (health insurance market choices), HB370 (Children’s Health Insurance Program amendments), SB134 (Mortgage Fraud Act), HB157 (Alcoholic Beverage Control Violations amendments), HB212 (educator salary adjustments), HB349 (open enrollment revisions), HB361 (antiseizure drug notification), HB491 (health plan exemption), and SB17 (child abuse registry amendments).
Representative Draxler introduced first substitute House Bill 92 (garnishment amendments), explained a technical renumbering amendment and the bill’s core change — allowing a wrongfully garnished person to seek redress from the plaintiff for $1,000 — and the House approved the amendment and passed the bill by a recorded vote of 64–0 and referred it to the Senate. The House also agreed to move items between the House and Senate calendars under suspension of the rules and listed Senate Bill 225 at the top of the Senate third-reading calendar; later the House took up and passed SB225 by recorded vote (71–0) and transmitted it for the President’s signature.
The House adopted a Rules Committee report reassigning many bills to appropriate standing committees and lifting several bills from Business and Labor to Political Subdivisions. The session concluded with routine announcements and adjournment until Monday, February 18 at 10 a.m.
The floor record shows widespread unanimous or near-unanimous support for many committee recommendations and several technical or first-read substitutions; specific fiscal details were not presented for many of the bills on the calendar during the floor session.
