Utah Senate passes Adoption Recodification Act to update language in adoption code
On the third day of the session the Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 14, a non-substantive recodification that updates archaic language in the adoption code, by a recorded vote of 20-0 with nine senators absent.
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Senator Steele told the Senate that Senate Bill 14, the Adoption Recodification Act, is intended to modernize the wording of the state's adoption code without changing its substantive effect. "The focus here is not to change the context of that code, but merely change the language to bring in some cases what might be termed archaic language into more prevalent, useful language in today's terms," Senator Steele said.
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