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House passes a slate of bills on third reading; floor moves on energy, licensing and local-government measures
Summary
On the same floor session the House advanced and passed multiple bills, including measures on barber licensing, alternative-energy incentives, natural-gas vehicle rates and municipal disincorporation; several items were circled or moved to later calendars for more work.
The Utah House handled a broad third-reading calendar and other floor business during the session. Several bills passed on the floor and several were circled for further work or placed on time-certain calendars.
Notable floor actions and recorded outcomes: HB356 (Barber, Cosmetologist, Barber, Aesthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Act amendments) passed and will be transmitted to the Senate after a sponsor presentation describing technical corrections to scope, reciprocity and apprenticeship language. HB384 (Public Lewdness amendments) passed the House with a recorded voice vote and was transmitted to the Senate. HB430 (Economic Development Incentives for Alternative Energy Products) passed 72–0 after sponsor remarks that the tax-credit zones will attract manufacturing and generation jobs to Utah.
HB392 (Natural Gas for Vehicles) authorizes the Public Service Commission to approve a discounted natural-gas vehicle rate as a short-term promotion; the House passed the bill 66–4. HB201 (Municipal Disincorporation Amendments) passed 52–17; sponsor and opponents debated the continuity of incorporations and the bill’s effect on local government stability.
Floor business also included a long debate on HB450 (Trademark Amendments) about internet-targeted advertising and the bill’s exclusions for internet service providers and search engines; the sponsor said internet operators are already excluded by the bill language. Several bills and rules-committee recommendations were adopted and readied for third reading by the Rules Committee.
The clerk read communications from the Senate and several bills were placed on the concurrence calendar or returned for technical correction. A number of calendar-management motions (lifting bills to a time-certain and placing amendments) were agreed to during the session.
