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Votes at a glance: Senate moves dozens of bills forward Feb. 16, 1996
Summary
At its Feb. 16 floor session the Utah Senate passed or placed on the third-reading calendar multiple bills across appropriations, retirement, public safety, and health with unanimous or near‑unanimous tallies; several items were circled for later action.
The Utah Senate’s Feb. 16 floor session produced a substantial set of recorded outcomes across many policy areas. The chamber voted on multiple consent-calendars and third‑reading items, adopting committee reports and sending bills to the House or to later stages in the Senate calendar. Key recorded results from the transcript include:
- Senate Bill 160 (access to private records): unanimous voice vote recorded as 20 ayes, 9 absent; passed to the House (SEG 723–729). - Senate Bill 178 (appeal settlement procedure): voice vote recorded as 21 ayes, 8 absent; passed to the House (SEG 763–767). - Senate Bill 172 (purchase of retirement service): voice vote recorded as 20 ayes, 9 absent; passed to the House (SEG 797–801). - Senate Bill 132 (electronic payroll process): roll-call vote recorded as 24 ayes, 5 absent; passed to the House (SEG 863–899). - Senate Bill 122 (legal acceptance of fax documents): roll-call vote recorded as 24 ayes, 5 absent; passed to further calendar processing (SEG 1441–1476). - Senate Bill 150 (statute of limitations amendments): roll-call vote recorded as 24 ayes, 5 absent (SEG 1521–1534). - Senate Bill 140 (Legacy Loop highway designation): amendment adopted and roll-call recorded as 25 ayes, 4 absent (SEG 1951–1964). - Senate Bill 119 (mental‑health professional licensure): roll-call recorded as 23 ayes, no nays, 6 absent (SEG 2071–2074). - Senate Bill 156 (professional practice renumbering and coordination clauses): roll-call recorded as 21 ayes, 8 absent (SEG 2279–2282). - Senate Bill 29 (retirement benefit enhancement): roll-call recorded as 24 ayes, 1 nay, 4 absent (SEG 2401–2403). - Senate Bill 83 (public-safety retirement COLA): roll-call recorded as 24 ayes, 5 absent (SEG 2510–2511). - Senate Bill 144 (Wasatch State Park appropriations): roll-call recorded as 23 ayes, 6 absent (SEG 2699–2701).
Several items were circled or moved between calendars for further amendment, including House Bill 146 (rural health care provider amendments) and substitute Senate Bill 116 (sound-barrier appropriation), which were set aside for afternoon or later consideration (SEG 809–816; SEG 824–830).
The session included routine business such as roll calls, committee assignment announcements, and visitor recognitions. The Senate recessed at mid‑day and planned to resume later in the day for continued consideration of circled items and third‑reading actions.
Provenance: vote tallies and calendar status are drawn directly from the floor transcript readouts and chair announcements recorded throughout the Feb. 16 session.
