House adopts multiple consent-calendar items, including recycling report amendment and licensing fixes

The House took up consent-calendar items and committee reports, adopting multiple recommendations and advancing bills to the Senate or appropriate reading calendars.

Representative Lee Perry described first-substitute HB138 (consumer electronic device recycling report amendments), saying the bill "strikes the reporting language" that required annual appearances; after explanation, voting opened and the House approved the substitute by recorded vote (71 yes, 0 no).

Representative DeCarlo presented HB151 to add the Acupuncture Licensing Board to a list of health-care-related boards authorized to weigh in on legislation affecting their practice; the House approved HB151 (71 yes, 0 no) and transmitted it to the Senate.

Representative Gibson described HB185 to modernize licensing for deception-detection examiners to include newer technologies developed, he said, at the University of Utah and beyond. "This bill just simply allows new technology to be entered in," Gibson said. HB185 passed with 72 yes, 0 no and will be transmitted to the Senate.

Committee chairs also reported multiple other bills and recommended assignments to standing committees and calendars. The House adopted rules-committee assignments and placed additional bills on third-reading or consent calendars as announced.

Next steps: Passed consent-calendar bills will be transmitted to the Senate; other committee‑recommended bills were scheduled for committee assignment or placed on reading calendars for future floor consideration.