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Votes at a glance: Feb. 13 Senate session sends multiple bills onward with mostly unanimous support
Summary
The Utah Senate on Feb. 13, 1995, approved a slate of consent and committee bills — including measures on medical financial assistance, mental-health education corrections, animal-control holding periods and judicial technical fixes — mostly by unanimous or near-unanimous votes and sent them to the House or later-reading calendars.
The Utah State Senate on Feb. 13 approved a run of consent and committee bills and advanced several measures to later consideration or to the House, with most votes unanimous or nearly so.
Among the votes the chamber recorded were:
- House Bill 23 (medical financial assistance): adopted by recorded unanimous vote among those present, recorded as 26 ayes, no nays and 3 absent. The bill had been amended in committee and was returned to the House for further consideration.
- House Bill 110 (rural mental health professional education corrections): adopted by recorded unanimous vote of 27 ayes, no nays and 2 absent; sponsor described the measure as a technical correction to last year’s legislation.
- Senate Bill 90 (appeal of dismissal amendments): sponsor said the bill enacts the Legislature’s view of recent Utah Supreme Court cases to preserve prosecutorial remedies; the Senate recorded 25 ayes, no nays and 4 absent and sent the bill to the House for further consideration.
- House Bill 73 (municipal and county animal-control holding periods): approved by a recorded vote of 24 ayes, no nays and 5 absent; sponsor said the bill clarifies uneven holding-period practices across jurisdictions.
- House Bill 87 (ADR certification amendment) and other consent items also passed on unanimous or near-unanimous recorded voice votes and were returned to the House or placed on the appropriate reading calendars.
Several first-substitute measures were also advanced. First substitute Senate Bill 96, concerning equitable distribution of fines and penalties by actual collections, passed on a recorded vote of 26 ayes, no nays and 3 absent. First substitute Senate Bill 50 (Centennial Commission borrowing authority) passed 25–0 with 4 absent and will move to the House. First substitute Senate Bill 103 (library special service district language) passed with 28 ayes and 1 absent; and first substitute Senate Bill 75 (campaign signage amendment) cleared the Senate with 25 ayes, 2 nays and 2 absent.
Most consent and committee-reported bills were moved with little floor debate and adopted by the president’s direction to record unanimous votes of those senators present. Where committee amendments were noted, sponsors said the bills would be transmitted back to the House for enrolling or signature as required.
What happens next: Passed bills will proceed to the House or to the next reading calendar as recorded in the Senate’s proceedings. The chamber recessed for lunch and planned to reconvene at 2 p.m.
