Votes at a glance: multiple Senate bills moved to third reading Feb. 6

The Utah Senate on Feb. 6 moved multiple committee bills to the third‑reading calendar. Key outcomes and brief descriptions:

• SB 75 (campaign signage amendments): Committee substitute reported favorably and the committee report was adopted; motion carried on the floor. (committee report adopted)

• SB 74 (Green River State Park — golf fee): Allows parks and recreation to charge an additional $1 for nine‑hole rounds to fund course improvements at Green River Golf Course; passed to the bottom of the third‑reading calendar (27 yes, 0 no, 2 absent).

• SB 93 (big game crop damage): At the request of the Division of Wildlife Resources, extends tools used for rangelands to croplands and permits negotiation with landowners and permit authority for taking animals; placed on third reading (tally announced on floor).

• SB 100 (state lands amendments): Technical cleanup to Trust Lands Management Act directing revenues from sovereign lands sales into the appropriate Sovereign Lands management account; passed to third reading (27 yes, 0 no, 2 absent).

• SB 71 (admissibility of drug analysis): Judiciary committee substitute narrows the bill to a section delegating rulemaking to the Commissioner of Public Safety to adopt criteria for scientific drug‑testing reports to be admissible at preliminary hearings; passed to third reading (27 yes, 0 no, 2 absent).

Several other procedural motions were approved (circling and uncircling bills, setting time‑certain hearings). Many of these measures were advanced unanimously or with overwhelming support; they now await third‑reading action on a subsequent day.