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Votes at a glance: Key measures the Utah House passed, Feb. 16, 2011
Summary
During the Feb. 16 session the House passed several bills on the consent and third-reading calendars; this roundup lists measures the House approved and their recorded tallies.
The Utah House recorded final actions on multiple measures during its Feb. 16 floor session. Below are measures with the House's recorded tallies and brief descriptions drawn from floor presentations and committee reports.
- HCR2 (Utah State Flag Concurrent Resolution): Passed 71-0. Sponsor Representative Julie Fisher asked manufacturers to correct a placement error of the date "1847" so reproductions follow the state code. (See floor presentation by Fisher.)
- House Bill 23 (Controlled Substance Modifications): Passed 65-3. The conference committee report added three substances used in production of synthetic drugs (commonly referred to in testimony as Ivory Wave and Basalt) to the banned list; the House adopted the conference report and passed final passage.
- First Substitute House Bill 19 (Insurance-related amendments): Initially recorded as passed (72-0) after concurrence, but later the House voted to reconsider and then moved to refuse to concur with the Senate amendments and request the Senate recede (procedural action recorded on the floor). See transcript for the sequence of reconsideration and refusal to concur.
- Senate Bill 49 (Oversight of bonding by counties): Passed 66-6. The bill gives counties the option to create control or advisory boards to oversee publicly funded convention centers to increase accountability to voters.
- Senate Bill 114 (Municipal Prosecutorial Discretion): Passed 70-0. The bill codifies existing practice allowing city attorneys with conflicts to have another prosecutor handle the matter.
- House Bill 107 (Volunteer Firefighters Retirement Amendment): Passed 67-3. Sponsor described the bill as technical corrections to prior retirement changes and important to surviving families.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 98 (Securities Related Amendments): Passed 70-0. Described as a cleanup bill with three technical changes to securities regulation.
- SCR3 (Concurrent resolution supporting continued federal funding for the Central Utah Project): Passed 67-1. Sponsor argued the federal government should honor prior repayment agreements tied to the project.
- SJR4 (Joint Resolution approving Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan): Passed 67-1. The floor heard questions about private-property impacts and the sponsor emphasized the designation as recognition, not zoning.
- Senate Bill 24 (Motor Vehicle Division fee amendment): Passed 53-18 after an amendment restoring intent language; sponsors said the bill reinstates fee authority needed for electronic transaction costs.
- Senate Bill 104 (Probate Law Amendments): Passed 63-6. The bill adds defined terms (per capita, share and share alike) to probate code to clarify distributions.
- Senate Bill 123 (Restrictions on Lobbying Expenditures by Public Education Entities): Passed 73-0. The bill prohibits school districts/charters that accept state funds from using those funds to hire lobbyists to lobby the Legislature.
This roundup is based on floor presentations, committee reports, and recorded vote tallies as read aloud by the Reading Clerk.
