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Votes at a glance: Utah House advances a slate of Senate bills on third reading
Summary
On the Senate third-reading calendar the House advanced multiple Senate bills across criminal justice, judiciary, family law, public safety and fiscal matters, typically by wide margins; notable roll-call tallies and unanimous approvals are listed below.
The Utah House on its afternoon calendar considered and voted on a series of Senate bills on third reading. Most passed by comfortable margins; the chamber recorded vote tallies and returned bills to the Senate as required for signatures.
Highlights and outcomes
- First substitute Senate Bill 185 (cause of action for minors injured by redacted material): Passed 50–8. Representative Stratton described the bill as creating a civil cause of action to hold manufacturers, producers or distributors accountable for physical or psychological harms to minors.
- First substitute Senate Bill 193 (Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission modifications): Passed 64–0. Representative Mackell framed the bill as a cleanup to clarify quorum, recommendation thresholds and conflict/disclosure rules for commission members.
- Senate Bill 202 (parent-time amendments): Passed 67–0. Sponsor clarified parent-time calculations during school breaks to align visitation across multiple children.
- Senate Bill 226 (permanent criminal stalking injunction amendments): Passed 67–0 as amended; sponsor said the bill extends application grounds to include stalking convictions, attempts, and certain pleas held in abeyance and removes conspiracy/solicitation language from committee version.
- Senate Bill 230 (solicitation amendments): Passed 71–1. Representative Winder said the bill updates prostitution statutes to cover internet-enabled arranging of meetings and to permit prosecution for offers or agreements to engage in prostitution.
- Senate Bill 235 (assault and threat-of-violence amendments): Passed 69–0. Sponsor described restoring higher misdemeanor penalties for threats against certain protected classes, reversing an unintended 2015 change.
- Senate Bill 239 (interfering with a peace officer – recording protection): Passed 71–0. Sponsor said the bill codifies practice that bystanders recording police who are not being interfered with cannot be detained for interference.
- Senate Bill 245 (Second Amendment specialty license plates): Passed 63–5. The bill creates a specialty plate with a $25 annual donation to fund construction of state-owned outdoor shooting ranges via the Division of Wildlife Resources.
- First substitute Senate Bill 199 (ABLE Act revisions): Passed 67–0. Sponsor described the bill as allowing Utah residents to access ABLE account pools in other states, directing the Department of Workforce Services to administer or contract for the program and creating a state nonrefundable tax credit for contributions.
- First substitute Senate Bill 94 (local district revisions) and other technical bills (SB209 budgeting revisions; SB253 energy amendments; SB215 master offense list, etc.): Passed with various tallies; many were presented as administrative or clarifying updates and received broad support.
Procedural note: Several bills were subject to motions to circle/uncircle during calendar management; SB215 was circled and later uncircled for floor consideration.
What happens next: Bills that passed will be transmitted back to the Senate for any necessary actions, signatures, and implementation steps noted by their text.
