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Votes at a Glance: Key Senate Floor Actions, March 3, 1999
Summary
The Utah Senate recorded final action on a range of House and substitute bills March 3. Highlights: SB 177 (concur) moved to the House; HB 162 (consumer protections) and HB 116 (victims council) passed; substitute HB 107 (land-use immunity), HB 285 (Olympic openness amendments), HB 85 (compulsory education) and HB 289 (Healthy Communities appropriation) advanced with recorded tallies in the day's transcript.
Below are the principal final actions reported on the Senate floor March 3 as recorded in the legislative transcript. (Vote tallies are reported as announced on the floor; some roll-call lists include formatting artifacts in the transcript.)
- Senate Bill 177 (amendments re: high-level nuclear waste): Senate concurred with House amendments and ordered final action; floor announcement recorded "25 aye votes, no nay votes, 4 absent."
- House Bill 162 (consumer protection amendments re: credit services and telephone soliciting): Adopted unanimously per the transcript record (announced as 22 aye, none nay, 7 absent); bill to be signed by the president for enrollment.
- Substitute House Bill 107 (land-use immunity): Floor amendments narrowed immunity to designated recreational sites and preserved municipal liability for negligence; amendments adopted and the bill returned to the House per the floor record.
- Substitute House Bill 285 (Olympic-related public access): Substitute language adopted following debate and friendly amendments negotiated with the governor's office and SLOC; the substitute was set for final passage procedures and to be returned to the House for enrollment/technical corrections.
- House Bill 85 (compulsory education/truancy): After extensive debate and rejected amendment packages, the Senate recorded final passage (transcript: recorded as 18 aye, 9 nay, 2 absent) and returned the bill to the House.
- House Bill 289 (Healthy Communities appropriation): Senate passed the appropriation under suspension of rules; transcript vote listing and announcement recorded (tallies as announced on the floor).
Other bills passed or advanced during the session included HB 290 (biennial budgeting), HB 110 (financial disclosure on initiatives) and multiple other House bills that were concurred with or returned to the House for signatures and enrollment. Several items were circled or recalled for technical amendments and conference assignment as noted in the floor record.
Note on transcript anomalies: The legislative transcript includes several long roll-call lists and some corrupted or unclear numeric strings in a few vote announcements; where possible this summary reports the tallies exactly as announced on the floor.
