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Votes at a glance: key House actions on Feb. 1, 2012
Summary
A roundup of the day's recorded actions and final votes in the Utah House, including consent-calendar items, committee reports, and several passed bills returned to the Senate.
The Utah House recorded numerous motions and roll-call votes on Feb. 1, 2012. Key outcomes included the following (final tallies and immediate dispositions):
- House Bill 289 (reauthorization of corrections education programs): passed 67 yes, 0 no; transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 281 (human services license extensions): passed 68 yes, 1 no; transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 267 (vintage travel trailers): passed 71 yes, 0 no; transmitted to the Senate.
- Senate Bill 28 (state construction code amendments, as amended): passed 67 yes, 7 no, 3 absent; returned to the Senate for further consideration.
- Senate Bill 20 (petition procedures for unaffiliated candidates, as amended): passed 71 yes, 0 no; will be returned to the Senate.
- Senate Bill 106 (tobacco settlement account amendments, first substitute): passed 73 yes, 0 no; returned to the Senate for signature.
- Senate Bill 39 (gubernatorial authority over higher-education officials): passed 39 yes, 34 no; returned to the Senate.
- Senate Bill 19 (voter information pamphlet changes, as amended): failed 29 yes, 42 no; returned to the Senate for filing.
- Senate Bill 118 (transferable development rights, as amended): passed 66 yes, 1 no; returned to the Senate.
The House also adopted multiple standing-committee reports and advanced numerous bills to reading calendars or committee referral, and it circled Senate Bill 29 to keep it at the top of the third-reading calendar for potential modifications.
