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Utah Senate advances a slate of bills, sending multiple measures to third reading or back to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate on Jan. 27 advanced a series of House and Senate measures — including HJR 3, HB13, HB175, HB188 and a set of Senate bills — voting them to the third-reading calendar or returning them to the House. Several votes were unanimous; the session included appropriations, technical fixes and policy changes.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 27 moved a package of bills forward, approving a mix of procedural actions, policy changes and appropriations and referring measures either back to the House for concurrence or to the Senate's third-reading calendar.
In a procedural action early in the session, the chamber reconsidered House Joint Resolution 3 and removed a Fulton amendment that had restricted the House and Senate rules committees from releasing certain ethics-related bills; the Senate voted to rescind the amendment and the measure was returned to the House (reported 26 aye, 0 nay, 3 absent).
The Senate passed House Bill 13 (Public Service Commission reporting) to require annual rather than biennial reporting and referred it back to the House for final signature (reported roll-call: 25 aye, 0 nay, 4 absent). The body…
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