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Senate reads in score of bills for first reading, assigns them to standing committees
Summary
On Jan. 19, 1998, the Utah Senate read a long list of bills and resolutions (SB 4–SB 116 and several resolutions), and the president assigned many of those bills to standing committees for committee review.
The clerk read the titles of numerous Senate bills and resolutions for first reading, announcing sponsors as the items were called into the record. The list included bills addressing medical examiner authority (SB 4), juvenile justice and human services custody (SB 5), motor-vehicle enforcement and uninsured motorists (SB 6–8), education and higher-education governance (SB 13, SB 93), public-health and child-care licensing reforms (SB 26), tax and revenue measures (SB 9, SB 31, SB 34), and dozens more.
After first reading, the President placed bills into standing committees for initial consideration. Examples of committee placements announced on the floor: business, labor and economic development received SB 22, SB 32, SB 73 and related items; education was assigned SB 18, SB 77 and SB 93; health and environment received SB 4 and SB 10; transportation and public safety received SB 6, SB 7 and SB 8; and other bills were distributed to state and local affairs, judiciary, revenue and taxation, and appropriations subcommittees as appropriate.
Senators moved to suspend the reading of titles for a set of noncontroversial bills so they could be placed at the top of the second-reading calendar; that motion passed by voice vote. The clerk reported that fiscal notes for the announced bills had been received and printed where applicable. The body concluded the organizational reading and moved toward committee work for substantive review of the bills.
