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Votes at a Glance: Selected Senate Actions on Feb. 9, 1996
Summary
Summary of key roll-call and voice-vote actions taken by the Utah Senate on Feb. 9, 1996, including passage or advancement of several bills to third reading and transmittal to the House.
The Utah Senate took a series of formal actions on Feb. 9, advancing and passing a number of bills. Key outcomes recorded on the floor include:
- Senate Bill 161 (consumer-protection investigator status): Declared unanimously adopted by voice vote and referred to the House for signature and enrollment.
- House Bill 53 (Transportation Corridor Preservation): Amendment adopted to change phrasing to "expenditure of fund monies"; the bill passed by recorded vote (22 yeas) and will be returned to the House.
- Senate Bill 115 (Engineering Education Appropriation): Passed by roll call (20 ayes, 1 nay, 8 absent) and referred to the House for further action (appropriates $1,158,000 to four institutions).
- Senate Bill 42 (Motor Carrier Deregulation): Sponsor explained transition of economic regulation away from PSC while retaining safety oversight; passed by roll call (21 ayes) and referred to the House.
- Senate Bill 110 (Justice Court Judge Salary Limits): First substitute adopted; later the first substitute passed to the third-reading calendar (16 ayes, 8 nays, 5 absent).
- Substitute S.B. 106 (Sales Tax on Fundraisers): Second substitute adopted and passed to the third-reading calendar (22 ayes, no nays recorded).
- First substitute S.B. 5 (Parents Medical Payment Responsibility): Passed to the third-reading calendar with 25 yeas and no nays.
- First substitute S.B. 79 (Pharmacy Practice Revision): Committee report adopted, floor amendment failed, and bill passed to third reading (23 ayes recorded).
- First substitute S.B. 138 (Postpartum care): Substitute adopted and moved to third reading with recorded votes in favor.
- S.B. 104 (Public notification of offenders): Committee amendments removed and the bill placed on the third-reading table.
Several bills were "circled" (set aside) for further work (e.g., S.B. 93, S.B. 133) and other items were placed on interim study or master study resolution per motions on the floor.
This list summarizes the formal floor outcomes as recorded during the Feb. 9 session; full roll-call tallies and committee actions remain the official record.
