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Votes at a glance: Senate floor actions Feb. 28, 2006
Summary
The Utah Senate logged a series of concurrence motions, passage votes and conference-committee appointments on Feb. 28, including concurrence on multiple bills, appointment of conference committees, and the override of a gubernatorial veto.
The Utah Senate’s Feb. 28 floor session recorded multiple formal actions. Below are the principal outcomes as recorded on the floor, with vote tallies and next procedural steps.
- First substitute Senate Bill 155 (county/municipal land use provisions): Senate concurred with House amendments. Vote recorded: 22 yes, 0 nay, 7 absent; returned to the House for further action.
- Senate Joint Resolution 9 (recognizing right to participate in religious expressions in public schools): Senate concurred with House amendment (added wording to distribute ‘annually’ and non-disruptively). Vote recorded: 23 yes, 0 nay, 6 absent; referred to House.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 92 (crane operator certification/licensure): Initially circled then uncircled; Senate concurred with the House substitution and returned the bill to the House for further action (final roll-call recorded on the floor).
- Senate Bill 80 (public–private partnerships for tollway facilities): Senate concurred with House amendments; final passage recorded as 19 yes, 5 nay, 5 absent; referred to House.
- House Bill 276 (Medicaid premium subsidy — "Covered at Work"): Senate passed under suspension with clerk announcing 22 yes, 0 nay, 7 absent; returned to House for signature. Sponsor cited a state share of $535,000 and federal drawdown figures on the floor.
- House Bill 288 (health care coverage for foster children): Passed under suspension; clerk announced 26 yes, 0 nay, 3 absent; returned to House.
- House Bill 339 (commission on civic and character education): Sponsor moved a fiscal amendment from $85,000 to $50,000; amendment adopted and bill passed (26 yes, 0 nay, 3 absent); returned to House.
- First substitute House Bill 333 (limited antitrust exemption for IPP to finish bonding): Passed (28 yes, 0 nay, 1 absent); returned to House for signature.
- First substitute House Bill 407 (counseling for families of veterans): Passed (29 yes, 0 nay); returned to House for signature. Sponsor cited an approximate fiscal note funded from House priority list (transcript line ambiguous about exact cents/figure).
- House Joint Resolution 23 (EITC outreach): Passed under suspension (29 yes, 0 nay); returned to House for signature; companion bill referenced appropriating $100,000 to DWS for outreach.
- House Bill 90 (hate-crime sentencing amendments): Passed substitute (29 yes, 0 nay); returned to House for speaker’s signature.
- First substitute House Bill 109 (sales tax on food, phased reduction): Passed (22 yes, 5 nay, 2 absent); recorded establishment of a $6,000,000 implementation fund at the Tax Commission.
- Senate Bill 70 (waste-disposal amendments): Governor vetoed the bill; the Senate entered the objections on the journal and voted to override the governor’s veto (21 yes, 8 nay); the Clerk will notify the House.
- Senate Bill 4 (new fiscal-year supplemental appropriations): Senate refused to concur with House amendments and appointed a conference committee (Senators Hilliard, Stevenson, Hale) in case the House will not recede.
Several other concurrence and transmittal notations were read by the Clerk; the chamber recessed at 07:30 for one hour.
