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Utah House passes package of licensing, health and procedural bills; circled balanced-budget resolution
Summary
On Feb. 9, 2011, the Utah House moved several bills to the Senate — including construction licensing changes, radiologic technologist licensing, and teen-mother immunization consent — and approved a rule allowing remote committee participation; lawmakers circled a balanced-budget resolution for further work.
The Utah House on Feb. 9 passed a series of bills affecting licensing, health care practice and legislative procedure and transmitted them to the Senate, while setting aside a high-profile balanced-budget resolution for later consideration.
Among the bills approved were a construction-license measure, several health-care licensing bills and a rule to allow remote participation in committee meetings. Several measures drew substantive floor debate but cleared the chamber by wide margins.
Representative Menlove described First Substitute House Bill 257 as "a very, very simple bill" that cleans up statute and rule language related to concealed-weapon instructor permits and helps address issues when fingerprints are smudged; the House approved HB257 67–0 and sent it to the Senate.
On business and labor matters, the House passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 35, a construction-license package that…
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