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Utah Senate approves wide range of bills including unemployment-fraud targeting, nursing care assessment and education planning
Summary
On Jan. 19, 2000 the Utah State Senate passed a slate of bills across policy areas — including measures to target unemployment-insurance fraud, amend nursing-care assessments, update education strategic planning and adopt digital-signature rules — and referred them to the House.
The Utah State Senate considered and approved multiple bills on Jan. 19, 2000, concluding a busy floor session that moved measures on unemployment fraud, health-care facility assessments, education planning and information-technology rules to the House for further consideration.
Senate Bill 83, an amendment to the state's unemployment-insurance process that the sponsor said would "put 3 people to full time to go after fraud" and remove duplicative hearing requirements, passed on a recorded roll-call vote. Sponsor Robert M. Muellstein described the change as allowing staff to focus on fraud investigations while preserving claimants' hearing rights.
Senate Bill 94, amending nursing-care-facility assessment law and removing a cost-of-living adjustment provision, was modified (including an amendment that addressed a fiscal note) and later passed. On the floor Senator Davis explained the amendment would eliminate a COLA in statute; after a fiscal amendment raising a fee to $1.83 the fiscal impact was reported as neutral and the bill was enacted from the Senate side and referred to the House.
The Senate also advanced several policy and technical bills: SB 20 (first substitute on government competition with the private sector, with an amendment clarifying procurement exceptions for university research and technology transfer) was amended and passed; SB 100 (state financial adviser amendment on competitive bidding for state bonds) passed; SB 76 and SB 77 (digital-signature and chief information officer provisions) passed; and SB 81 (strategic planning for public education) was amended on the floor and sent to third reading with adopted language changes. Other measures acted on included SB 13 (State Parks amendment), SB 4 (podiatrist assistant licensure exemption), SB 10 (Community Impact Board definitions), SB 5 (special mobile equipment definition), and SB 92 (nurse-midwife sunset extension).
Votes were recorded on the floor and announced by the presiding officer; where recorded tallies were given, the clerk and president announced results such as "having received 25 aye votes, no nay votes, 4 being absent" (multiple bills) or similar counts as the measures were passed and transmitted to the House. Several bills were temporarily circled for additional work or fiscal clarification and later returned for final action before adjournment.
The Senate adjourned after making a rules-committee announcement and scheduling the next floor session. Several floor members noted constituent- and staff-related items and visitors during closing remarks.
The bills listed above were moved by the Senate on Jan. 19; all actions reported here reflect votes and motions recorded on the Senate floor and announced by the presiding officer.
