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Senate clears consent calendar and passes several technical bills
Summary
On Feb. 22 the Utah Senate approved a set of consent and technical measures — including SB 196 (Soil Conservation Act amendments), HB 197 (transportation technical amendments), HB 27 (Gulf fees), SB 6 (child abuse reporting), SB 139 (Employment Security Act amendments), SB 44 (student discipline), SB 120 (environmental impairment) and SB 116 (home medical equipment sales-tax exemption) — mostly by unanimous or large margins.
The Utah Senate used the consent calendar and routine floor procedures on Feb. 22 to advance a series of largely technical or noncontroversial bills.
Among the bills approved with little debate were:
- SB 196 (Soil Conservation Act amendments): Sponsor described the bill as a technical clarification drafted after interim committee work with endorsement from the Department of Agriculture; the Senate recorded the bill as passing with a unanimous or…
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