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Senate advances broad package of bills on health, licensing, taxes and corrections; multiple measures sent to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate handled its third- and second-reading calendars, passing a series of bills on Medicaid recovery, motor-vehicle bonds, corrections capacity, licensing updates, and tax and notary technical fixes; votes and procedural actions were recorded for each item.
The Utah State Senate spent its floor session processing third- and second-reading calendars and passed a broad set of bills with generally decisive margins.
On the third-reading calendar the Senate passed, among others:
- Senate Bill 104 (Office of Recovery Services fee), final passage 25-0 with 4 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 117 (Medicaid recovery amendments), final passage 27-0 with 2 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 110 (membership and service of Utah commissioners on national uniform-state-law bodies), final passage 28-0 with 1 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 54 (motor vehicle dealer bond claims), final passage 28-0 with 1 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 83 (acupuncture licensing modernization), final passage 28-0 with 1 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 108 (workers' compensation time limitation), final passage 29-0 with 0 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Joint Resolution 10 (Garfield County correctional expansion authorization), final passage 28-0 with 1 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 43 (infraction for smoking in a vehicle with a child age 5 or under), final passage 20-7 with 2 absent; referred to the House. - Senate Bill 134 (psychologist licensing updates), final passage 27-0 with 2 absent; referred to the House.
The Senate also handled many House bills on the second-reading calendar (for example, HB10, HB60, HB62, HB27, HB26, HB33, HB37, HB42 and HB67), marking several for third-reading or uncircling them so they can proceed in later floor action.
Floor business included committee reports accepted by the Senate and procedural motions to circle/uncircle bills. Senators used personal-privilege time for brief ceremonial remarks, and President Valentine adjourned the Senate until 10 a.m. the following day.
The transcript contains recorded roll-call tallies specified above and references to committee work and stakeholder negotiations for a number of measures; individual bills will proceed to the House for further consideration.
