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Senate advances dozens of House and Senate bills; multiple measures placed on third-reading calendars
Summary
The Utah Senate on March 1 moved dozens of bills through committee reports and votes, returning some to the House, placing many on third-reading calendars and forwarding others for signature. Measures included policy on procurement from sheltered workshops, administrative rule reauthorizations and updates to criminal and civil statutes.
The Utah State Senate spent much of its March 1 session taking up a large number of House and Senate measures and moving them forward for further action.
At the opening, the chief clerk read a cluster of House-passed measures sent to the Senate for consideration or signature, including bills on job training for displaced defense workers, a motor vehicle insurance database, fair-housing amendments and sales-tax sunset reauthorization. Several other bills were recorded as passed and returned for presidential signature.
Throughout the day the body adopted committee reports and placed many bills on the third-reading calendar, including substitute HB 115 (annual reauthorization of administrative rules), substitute HB 142 (school-district interfund transfers), HB 78 (procurement from sheltered workshops), HB 137 (director/officer liability amendments), and a cluster of other bills addressing health care, securities, and evidence of motor vehicle insurance. Many of these motions were noncontroversial and carried by voice vote or recorded roll calls.
Where recorded, the Senate logged the following formal outcomes reported on the floor: HB 105 (DFCM/building board amendments) passed on final roll call (reported 28 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent); HB 136 (smoking in public school buildings) passed on voice/roll call (reported 28 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent); substitute HB 142 passed (reported 27 ayes, 0 nays, 2 absent); substitute HB 115 passed (reported 28 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent); HB 78 passed to third reading (reported 23 ayes, 0 nays, 6 absent); HB 137 passed to third reading (reported 25 ayes); and numerous others were placed on the third-reading calendar or sent to the House for further action.
Most items advanced with minimal floor debate; senators requested fiscal or legal follow-up on a handful of bills and in several cases asked staff to supply additional information before final action. Where the House and Senate disagreed on amendments, the session recorded motions to refuse to concur and set conference committees to work toward resolution.
The Senate adjourned at the end of the day's business and scheduled reconvening the next morning at 8:00 a.m.
