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Votes at a glance: key bills advanced or passed in the Utah Senate on Feb. 17, 2000
Summary
The Senate advanced multiple bills to third reading or passed them to the House, including seat-belt and recycling measures, insurance and county-government clarifications, bonding for State Fair Park, and changes to notary and regulatory task-force work; several bills were circled for further amendment.
SALT LAKE CITY — During its Feb. 17 session the Utah State Senate moved a slate of bills forward on the second- and third-reading calendars and recorded final outcomes on several measures.
At-a-glance results from the floor:
- Senate Bill 12 (Seat-belt law amendment): Advanced to the third-reading calendar after a recorded vote; the measure expands primary enforcement to drivers and passengers age 18 and under. Sponsors cited crash and fatality statistics; opponents raised liberty and profiling concerns.
- Senate Bill 244 (Extension/repeal of sunset dates): Passed by roll call; committee-recommended extensions of sunset dates were approved and the bill was placed on the third-reading calendar.
- House Bill 171 (Recycling Market Development Zone Act reauthorization): Passed to the third-reading calendar; the bill extends the program’s sunset to July 2010 and is administered by the Department of Community and Economic Development.
- Senate Bill 58 (Optional county government forms): Passed to the third-reading calendar; the bill clarifies allowed county forms and preserves current arrangements in Grand and Morgan counties until they elect change.
- Senate Bill 190 (Insurance law update): Advanced to third reading; sponsor noted earlier mental-health-parity language had been amended out in committee.
- Senate Bill 235 (Bonding for State Fair Park Corporation): Advanced after roll-call (constitutional majority); the bill would authorize up to $10.5 million in revenue bonds or a lease-purchase agreement to build a multipurpose facility at the State Fair Park, based on a feasibility study and a 25-year repayment plan.
- Substitute Senate Bill 250 (Electrical deregulation and Customer Choice Task Force amendments): Moved to the third-reading calendar; a scheduling amendment was deferred to third reading.
Procedural notes: Several bills were "circled" for additional amendment work (for example, notary public testing provisions in SSB 145), meaning the full chamber deferred final action to allow sponsors and staff more time to reconcile language.
Next steps: Bills moved to the third-reading calendar will be scheduled for final floor consideration; measures passed to the House are subject to that chamber’s action.
