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Votes at a glance: multiple Senate measures advance, including tax dedication, golf fees and child-abuse database change
Summary
On Jan. 24 the Utah Senate advanced a slate of bills to later stages or to the House for consideration, including SB 88 (28–0 recorded), SJR 4 (compensation substitute), SB 34 (sales and use tax revenue dedication), SB 103 (golf fee adjustments, 20–9), SB 109 (child-abuse database) and others; several measures were referred to appropriations for funding review.
The Utah State Senate recorded votes on multiple bills during its Jan. 24 session, advancing a number of measures to later stages of the legislative process or transmitting them to the House for consideration.
Key recorded outcomes included:
- Senate Bill 88 (exclusion of territory from county service area): President announced "28 aye votes, no nay votes, and 1 being absent" and the bill "passes to the House for consideration."
- Substitute SJR 4 (in-session employee compensation): Presented as a roughly 3% hourly increase for most employees; the substitute was adopted and the transcript reports it passed with 28 ayes, no nays and 1 absent.
- Senate Bill 34 (use of sales and use tax revenue for local interlocal agreements, Bridgerland Ice Arena): The chamber recorded passage and sent the bill to the House (28 ayes, no nays, 1 absent).
- Senate Bill 103 (state park golf-course fee changes to create a dedicated fund): Sponsors said the change would create a non-lapsing fund for golf-course maintenance. The transcript records the vote as 20 ayes and 9 nays, sending the bill to the third reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 109 (child-abuse database information): Sponsor described the bill as a narrow oversight correction to add the perpetrator's birth date and age; the measure passed with 28 ayes, no nays, 1 absent and was advanced to the third-reading calendar.
- Several other bills and committee reports were adopted or placed on calendars (including SB 95, SB 125, SB 129 and House technical bills). Some measures carrying fiscal notes (notably SB 115) were advanced but identified as contingent on appropriation work.
Senators on both sides used the recorded votes to state positions and to flag items that require further scrutiny by the appropriations process, particularly bills with positive fiscal notes for the state or programs that would require dedicated funding.
