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Votes at a glance: House passes multiple bills Feb. 23, 2012
Summary
On Feb. 23 the Utah House approved a slate of bills on the concurrence and third-reading calendars, including licensing, judiciary, BCI fee rounding, citation amendments and military property-tax exemption; vote tallies and sponsor summaries are listed below.
The Utah House took action on numerous consent, concurrence and third-reading items on Feb. 23, recording roll-call results and brief sponsor explanations. Key outcomes:
- House Bill 399 (physician and osteopathic licensing amendments), sponsor Representative Sandstrom: passed 74-0; sponsor said the bill prevents licensing divisions from requiring specialty-board certification as a condition of licensure.
- Senate Bill 154 (judiciary amendment), sponsor Representative Snow: passed 71-0; changes to judicial administration to protect certain at-risk employees’ private information and broaden an exemption in the Utah Mediation Act were described.
- First substitute House Bill 432 (Bureau of Criminal Identification amendments), sponsor Representative Selig: passed 71-0; bill allows administrative rounding of pass-through concealed-weapon fees to simplify consumer payments.
- House Bill 453 (citation amendments), sponsor Representative Ipsen: passed 70-0; bill clarifies officers may issue citations as summonses while still taking a person into custody in certain circumstances.
- Senate Bill 50 (motor vehicle impoundment amendment), sponsor Representative Anderson: passed 72-0; bill authorizes impoundment of vehicles for repeat DUI offenders whose driver privileges are already suspended or revoked.
- Senate Bill 120 (off-duty peace officers employment), sponsor Representative Grover: passed 72-0; requires posting of contracts for off-duty peace-officer employment so other agencies can review them.
- Senate Bill 205 (records access discovery amendment), sponsor Representative Dawe: passed 70-1; bill allows prosecutors to share certain private records (criminal-background checks and controlled-substance database searches) with defense counsel during discovery to ensure access to potentially exculpatory material.
- First substitute House Bill 253 (voter registration amendments), sponsor Representative Powell: passed 49-20; technical amendment prevents unnecessary duplicate mailings by county clerks.
- Several other bills were read for the first time and referred to rules at the end of the calendar session.
Votes were recorded by the reading clerk and will be transmitted or returned to the Senate as required by procedure.
