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Senate advances wide slate of bills, including victims' rights implementation and health-care reforms
Summary
The Utah Senate approved multiple bills Feb. 18, 1994 — moving criminal and policy measures forward, consenting to appointments, and passing a health-care reform substitute with several floor amendments. Several bills passed unanimously or by large margins.
The Utah State Senate met Feb. 18, 1994, and cleared a broad set of measures ranging from criminal statutes to administrative appointments and health-care reform amendments. Lawmakers consented to gubernatorial appointments, placed numerous bills on third-reading calendars and passed several items under suspension of the rules.
On constitutional and criminal matters, the Senate moved S.J.R. 6 (a constitutional declaration of victims' rights) and its statutory implementation, S.B. 156. Senators adopted a friendly amendment replacing the word "bail" with "pretrial" in one provision and approved S.J.R. 6 by voice vote; S.B. 156 passed with a recorded tally of 22 ayes, 1 nay and 6 absent after floor clarification that full confrontation rights remain for trial but…
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