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Votes at a glance: Utah House approves several bills on Feb. 15, 2012
Summary
The House approved a series of largely noncontroversial bills on Feb. 15, including emergency-vehicle and transportation measures, consumer-protection updates and changes to professional licensing; recorded tallies are listed below.
The Utah House of Representatives used its Feb. 15 floor time to approve a slate of bills, most by unanimous or near-unanimous margins. Below are key outcomes from the session.
- Senate Bill 147 (emergency vehicle amendments): Passed 69–0. The measure extends the 500-foot following-distance rule to all emergency vehicles using lights and sirens.
- Senate Bill 142 (traffic management committee repeal): Passed 69–0. The bill disbands an obsolete traffic-management committee whose functions have been integrated into the Utah Department of Transportation.
- Senate Bill 148 (transportation maintenance facilities): Passed 70–0. The bill clarifies the disposition of UDOT maintenance-facility property and allows use of proceeds under a federal tax provision to acquire replacement facilities.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 42 (limitation on deficiency actions following short sale): Passed 68–0 after the House suspended the three-reading requirement. The bill shortens the timeframe in which a lender may pursue a deficiency judgment in certain short-sale circumstances.
- House Bill 82 (architect continuing education changes): Passed 66–1. The bill aligns Utah continuing-education standards for architects with national guidance and changes statutory phrasing to allow standards to be defined by rule; members discussed changes to annual hour expectations.
- House Bill 78 (Division of Consumer Protection amendments): Passed 71–0. The technical updates clarify definitions (including telecommunications/internet) and close a loophole that allowed partial credit-card charges to evade statute enforcement.
Several committee reports were adopted and additional bills were read, circled or placed on calendars for future action. The House recessed until 2:00 p.m. following the recorded votes and committee actions.
These results reflect recorded tallies taken during the Feb. 15 House session; measures receiving votes will be transmitted to the Senate (if originating elsewhere) or to the enrolling staff for further processing.
