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Utah Senate advances rule change, moves multiple bills to third-reading calendars
Summary
The Utah Senate on Jan. 20, 2004, adopted a rules committee report, advanced a set of bills to the second- and third-reading calendars and approved SR 2 to return certain procedural control to the Rules Committee. Several bills (including SB 27, SB 18, SB 13 and SB 85) were reported favorably and set for further consideration.
The Utah Senate met Jan. 20 in Salt Lake City and moved a package of committee recommendations and bills forward on the calendar. Senators adopted a Rules Committee report that assigns newly introduced measures to standing committees and later approved a rules resolution (SR 2) that returned control of certain bill routing from the president to the Rules Committee and rearranged the daily order of the pledge and prayer.
Clerks and committee chairs summarized multiple standing-committee recommendations. The Business and Labor Committee reported favorably on Senate Bill 27 (Telephone and Facsimile Solicitation Act). The Revenue and Taxation Committee recommended changes to resort-community tax rules in Senate Bill 13. Other committees sent bills affecting property-rights procedures, municipal annexation (SB 18) and political activities of public entities (SB 85) to the floor for further consideration.
The Senate voted by roll call to advance several measures. The clerk announced that SB 27 received 26 aye votes with no nays and moved to the third-reading calendar. SR 2, a rules-change resolution explained by Senator Lyle Hilliard, received 27 aye votes with no nays and was placed on the third-reading calendar. The clerk likewise reported SB 18 as passing to third reading with 28 aye votes and SB 85 with 28 aye votes, no nays and one absence; SB 13 was reported as receiving 27 aye votes. Several other bills (including SB 30 and the first substitute to SB 19) were temporarily circled or uncircled for later consideration as staff resolved technical issues and sponsors explained details.
Procedural motions included a unanimous suspension of the chamber's 24-hour rule to allow immediate consideration of bills recently added to the calendar, and motions granting agencies leave to open late bill files (Department of Real Estate and the Sentencing Commission). The Senate also set a time certain for SB 9 to be heard the following day at 10:30 a.m.
The session included routine ceremonial recognitions (students and birthday acknowledgments) and multiple brief sponsor explanations of bill intent. The body took a voice vote to adopt committee reports and used roll-call voting for several third-reading actions.
The Senate will return to several items on the second- and third-reading calendars in subsequent floor sessions as bills are scheduled for debate and final votes.
