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Senate clears several bills and calendar moves in abbreviated floor session
Summary
In a shortened floor session with many senators absent, the Utah Senate passed a series of noncontroversial bills (including SB246, SB265, SB230 and others), removed circles on numerous items, and referred multiple house bills back to the rules committee for processing.
With a reduced floor attendance because many senators were serving on executive appropriation panels, the Utah Senate prioritized noncontroversial measures and procedural housekeeping. Senators moved several bills by 'circle' or by suspension of rules and conducted multiple roll-call votes to send bills to the House or to advance them to third reading.
Notable floor actions during the session include:
- Substitute Senate Bill 200 (special improvement district amendments) passed by roll-call (17 aye, 0 nay, 12 absent) and was transferred to the House. - Senate Bill 246 (meat and poultry products inspection amendments) passed after sponsor remarks aligning state law with federal inspection standards; the clerk recorded 16 ayes and the bill passed. - Senate Bill 265, which increases a fee allocation to fund CPR training in schools by raising a portion of traffic-ticket‑related charges from $3.00 to $3.50, passed (recorded as 15 ayes, 1 nay, 13 absent) with sponsors estimating roughly $120,000 annually for the program and noting the victim reparations fund had reserves above $5 million. - Multiple other committee reports were adopted or circled and the presiding officer announced the Senate would adjourn until 8 a.m. Monday.
The session included multiple roll-call tallies and several clerical corrections recorded in the transcript; where corrected totals were entered later in the record, those corrected numbers are noted in the Senate record.
