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Senate advances multiple bills, tables several proposals in Feb. 24 floor session
Summary
The Utah Senate on Feb. 24 adopted committee reports, approved a series of bills on the third-reading calendar and circulated or tabled several others pending fiscal or technical amendments. Key actions included passage of bills on insurance, education, community impact funding and emergency services; the session also recognized Job Corps students.
The Utah State Senate held a full floor session Feb. 24, 2005, adopting committee reports, approving a slate of bills on the second and third reading calendars and recording several roll-call votes on measures ranging from insurance and education to local funding and procurement.
Senators unanimously passed First Substitute House Bill 83, which lets the Department of Agriculture contract with private vendors to verify and certify scales and scanners (the president announced the vote as 25 yes, 0 nay, with 4 absent). The chamber also approved First Substitute House Bill 191 (captive insurance law amendments), First Substitute House Bill 201 (technical life-insurance disclosures) and second-substitute House Bill 74 (tuition program to recruit teachers in special education and critical math and science), each carried…
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