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Senate passes a slate of House bills and consent items; roll-call tallies reported
Summary
On Feb. 6 the Utah Senate passed multiple House bills and consent-calendar items (including HB201 on property-tax circuit breaker, HB202 recodification, HB179 student-transportation mill-levy change, HB15 workforce services technical amendments, and several others); roll-call tallies were read for each passed bill and bills were returned to the House for enrollment.
The Utah State Senate cleared a series of House bills and consent items Feb. 6, approving measures on tax relief, transportation, education funding and regulatory housekeeping and returning them to the House for final signatures and enrollment.
Key measures approved included House Bill 201 (Property Tax: circuit-breaker exemption), which the sponsor explained allows a taxpayer newly eligible in the current year to receive the circuit-breaker exemption for that year without retroactive refunds for prior years; the floor recorded 24 ayes and no nays.
House Bill 202 (transportation code recodification) moved forward after senators praised interim staff work on reorganizing statutory language; the Senate reported 24 ayes and no nays on the roll call. House Bill 179, which raises the local school board mill-levy ceiling for student transportation from 0.002 to 0.003 and was described as a local option with a possible up-to-$1.5 million equalization appropriation, passed with recorded ayes (24) and no nays. Technical and noncontroversial items that passed included HB15 (workforce services amendments), HB26 (trade or business names), HB214 (motor vehicle identification) and HB174 (window-tinting amendments); consent calendar items were placed and passed with roll-call tallies read on the floor.
Where the floor reported roll-call counts, clerks announced the number of aye votes and noted absentees; most bills were approved by large margins or unanimous voice vote. Bills passed on Feb. 6 were routinely referred back to the House for final signatures and enrolling in open session. The Senate also placed a number of bills on committee calendars and assigned newly received bills to standing committees. The session adjourned until Monday at 10 a.m.
