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Votes at a glance: bills the House passed Feb. 24, 2017
Summary
A short roundup of bills the Utah House passed Feb. 24, including custody/adoption, CRA technical fixes, health-insurance 'right to shop', school accountability changes, renewable-energy and more, with vote tallies and next steps.
The Utah House recorded final-action votes on multiple bills on Feb. 24. Key items and outcomes listed below are drawn from the House floor proceedings.
- First substitute HB 197 (Custody and adoption amendments): Passed 64–0. Prohibits persons convicted of certain child-abuse felonies from adopting or receiving custody except in narrow judicial findings. Transmitted to Senate.
- HB 290 (Community Reinvestment Agency amendments): Passed 68–0. Technical and cleanup changes to RDA/CRA language; transmitted to Senate.
- HB 255 (Tax increase initiative amendments): Passed 55–13. Requires a simple calculation to express an initiative-proposed tax change as a percentage; transmitted to Senate.
- First substitute HB 127 (Health insurance right-to-shop amendments): Passed 67–0. Requires PEHP to implement a voluntary savings-reward program; transmitted to Senate.
- First substitute HB 145 (Foster children visitation amendments): Uncircled and passed 68–0. Allows courts to consider visitation with a natural sibling where in the child’s best interest and with parental consent; transmitted to Senate.
- Second substitute HB 134 (Emissions testing amendments): Passed 34–29. Expands diesel testing to Utah County under specified exemptions; referred to Senate.
- Fifth substitute HB 22 (Nomination petition amendments): Passed 59–3. Restores interim-committee form adding signature-integrity standards and a window for signers to remove names; referred to Senate.
- Second substitute HB 264 (Utah public education review and strategic planning): Passed 60–6. Extends time for statutory review and planning; referred to Senate.
- First substitute HB 297 (Renewable energy amendments): Passed 64–1. Allows contracts using certain out-of-state renewable resources under schedule guidance; referred to Senate.
- HB 189 (Pharmacy compounding amendments): Passed 46–21. Removes a state-level prohibition mirroring an FDA restriction; federal law remains in effect; referred to Senate.
- HB 262 (Dental licensing amendments): Passed 67–0. Creates a pathway for certain foreign-trained dentists to obtain licensure by endorsement; referred to Senate.
- HB 79 (Private attorney general doctrine): Passed 66–0. Restores the doctrine for suits against government actors; referred to Senate.
Several other bills were circled, substituted or placed on third-reading calendars for future action. For bills referred to the Senate, next procedural steps are consideration by the upper chamber.
