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Votes at a glance: key measures the House passed and referred to the Senate
Summary
A roundup of third-reading calendar items the House approved and referred to the Senate, including bills on military tax credits, motor vehicle revisions, insurance code amendments, health authority changes, and grants to rural hospitals.
The Utah House moved a number of third‑reading calendar items through the chamber and transmitted several to the Senate. Highlights on floor action and recorded tallies during the session include:
• HB279 (Tax incentives for military): sponsor Representative Wayne Harper said the bill creates a 5% credit against the first $2,200 of active-duty military income to replicate prior tax relief; passage was recorded and the bill was referred to the Senate.
• HB151 (Motor vehicle revisions): after a motion to uncircle and an amendment clarifying police impoundment procedures (verification of insurance in the identification database), the House passed HB151 as amended (tally announced: 74–0) and referred it to the Senate.
• HB342 (Insurance Code Amendments): a large omnibus insurance bill that inserts prescription drug coverage into the health-insurance definition, clarifies title-commission rules, defines registration requirements for service contract providers, caps family deductibles and adds other consumer protections — the House passed the bill as amended, 73–0, and it was forwarded to the Senate.
• HB276 (Health Professional Authority — death and disability): the second substitute allows nurse practitioners to sign death certificates and identify disability for disabled-parking placards (when the NP is the patient's clinician); the House passed it 73–0 (2 absent).
• HB281 (Grants to rural hospitals): the House passed a change to remittance routing so tax commission payments go directly to municipalities rather than through the health department; the House passed the first substitute 73–0 (2 absent).
Most measures passed on recorded voice/roll-call votes and will be transmitted to the Senate; where the clerk announced tallies on the floor, those tallies are reported here.
