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Votes at a glance: key bills the Utah House passed on the floor
Summary
The House cleared a broad slate of bills on concurrence and final passage, including agriculture code amendments, food-truck rules, GRAMA changes, auto-insurance amendments, Medicaid dental-waiver timing, and multiple local tax and land-management measures. Vote tallies and outcomes are listed below.
The Utah House completed floor action on a series of bills and resolutions. Below are the principal measures recorded on the floor, their outcomes and the recorded vote tallies as announced in the transcript.
- First substitute House Bill 344, Utah Agriculture Code Amendments — concurrence passed; recorded vote: 63 yes, 0 no. (House will return bill to Senate for signature.)
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 10, recognizing the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad (amended to add a descendant of a Chinese railroad worker to the planning committee) — concurrence passed, 68 yes, 0 no.
- First substitute Senate Bill 250, Food Truck Licensing and Regulation — passed 73 yes, 0 no.
- First substitute Senate Bill 242, Government Records Access and Management Act Amendments — passed 68 yes, 7 no (limits incarcerated requesters to five requests per agency per year; attorneys remain unlimited).
- Fourth substitute Senate Bill 50, Automobile Insurance Registry Amendments — passed as substituted 74 yes, 0 no (modified impound rules to preserve crash impoundment and provide discretion in other encounters).
- First substitute House Bill 281, Construction and Fire Code Amendments (concurred) — passed 72 yes, 0 no.
- Senate Bill 274, Medicaid Dental Waiver Amendments — passed 73 yes, 0 no (effective date adjusted to July 1; sponsor estimated ~34,000 disabled adults served).
- Senate Bill 125, Authorization to Modify Charter Grama — passed 65 yes, 7 no (modifies neighborhood-school enrollment priority rules for charter schools).
- Third substitute House Bill 407, Utah Public Land Management Act Amendments (concurred) — passed 61 yes, 11 no.
- Senate Bill 265, Distribution of Revenues under Local Sales and Use Tax Act (coal-county distributions reinstated) — passed 72 yes, 0 no.
- Senate Bill 247, Modifications to Distribution of Local Sales Tax Revenues (hold-harmless removal of sunset for Alta, Brian Head, Garfield County) — passed 66 yes, 5 no.
- Senate Bill 279, Alcohol Modifications — placed on the calendar (circled) for the Senate third-reading calendar under suspension of rules.
- Senate Bill 268, Waste Amendments (reclassify certain incoming waste as nonhazardous) — passed 70 yes, 2 no.
- First substitute Senate Bill 234, School Turnaround Amendments (as amended) — passed 70 yes, 3 no.
- Senate Bill 227, Doxing Prohibition Amendments — passed 62 yes, 9 no.
- Second substitute House Bill 255, Initiative Amendments (concurred) — passed 55 yes, 16 no.
- First substitute Senate Bill 261, Substance Use Disorder Programs — passed 70 yes, 0 no.
- First substitute Senate Bill 249, Tax E-Filing Amendments — passed 68 yes, 0 no.
Several items were discussed and adopted on voice or recorded votes; the House recessed at the end of the floor actions and will return as scheduled.
