Senate advances several bills on calendars, assigns substitute SB 26 to retirement task force and adjourns

The Utah Senate used its floor session on Feb. 27 to re-order its agenda and send measures to committee for further study. Under a rules report presented on the floor, the Senate placed a set of House bills at the top of the second-reading calendar so they will be among the first considered when the chamber next takes up House business.

During the rules presentation, the clerk read titles including a revenue and taxation offense measure, a bill to repeal National Guard Efficiency Boards, and a county cooperative agreement for fire protection; the floor record also included a workmen's compensation access-to-medical-records measure and a consumer protection amendment read aloud. The transcript records the bill titles as spoken on the floor but contains spacing in the read numbers; the precise house bill numbers are not clearly recorded in the floor text and thus are not specified here.

Earlier, the Senate moved to "uncircle" the second substitute to Senate Bill 26 and to send that substitute to the rules committee for assignment to the retirement task force for study. The floor identified Senator Butters as sponsor of the item. A motion to move business to the third-reading calendar was also made and approved by voice vote.

The session concluded when the presiding officer moved to adjourn until 8 a.m. on Monday; the motion passed by voice vote and the Senate adjourned.

The transcript contains no roll-call tallies for these procedural votes; actions on calendar placement and committee assignment were recorded as agreed by voice vote.