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Votes at a glance: House approves technical fixes, designations and consumer-protection bills
Summary
During the Jan. 25, 2011 session the Utah House approved a set of bills on third reading — including multiple technical code updates, heritage designations and consumer-protection changes — and referred each to the Senate or placed on the next calendar as recorded below.
The Utah House cleared a number of bills on Jan. 25, 2011. Below are the items on the third-reading calendar and their recorded outcomes.
- House Bill 186 (Utah Code technical amendments): Passed on third reading, 69 yes, 0 no. Sponsor described the bill as a cleanup to modernize archaic terminology (e.g., changing “monies” to “money”).
- House Bill 213 (Statutory construction amendments): Passed on third reading, 71 yes, 0 no, 3 absent. Sponsor said this is the second phase of a multi-year code-cleanup project covering Titles 17–35.
- House Bill 44 (Italian American Heritage Month designation): Passed, 65 yes, 2 no, 7 absent. Sponsor said the designation follows prior practice of recognizing heritage months.
- House Bill 194 (Service Contracts Act amendments): Passed, 67 yes, 0 no. The bill requires clearer notice for automatic-renewal provisions and calls for renewal terms to appear on the first page of service contracts.
- HJR9 (Navajo Code Talkers joint resolution): Passed, 60 yes, 5 no. The resolution supports recognition of Navajo Code Talkers and a museum project near Window Rock.
- House Bill 215 (Fatality Review Act amendments): Passed, 62 yes, 0 no. The sponsor said the change clarifies which review reports are public and allows the director or designee to accept reports.
- House Bill 37 (Determination of state taxable income): Passed, 65 yes, 0 no. Sponsor presented technical fixes requested by the State Tax Commission.
Several other bills were circled, substituted or placed on the second-reading calendar after committee reports and procedural motions.
All measures listed above were read on the House floor and either passed on third reading or received favorable action as noted; those that passed will be transmitted to the Senate for consideration.
