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Utah Senate advances multiple bills on consent calendar, including tougher mortgage-fraud penalties and small-business rule review
Summary
On the consent calendar the Utah Senate approved a batch of bills including stiffer penalties and investigative authority for mortgage fraud, a requirement to report rule impacts on small businesses, and several criminal and licensing updates. Most consent items were sent to the House for final action.
The Utah Senate on the floor today approved a series of bills on the consent and second-reading calendars, advancing measures on mortgage fraud, administrative-rule impact reviews for small businesses and changes to criminal and licensing law.
Senator Kilpack said Senate Bill 199 clarifies enforcement authority for the Division of Real Estate and increases penalties for people who perform regulated real-estate activities without a license. "Much of this bill... allows the division to investigate and to prosecute parties who do not have a license," he said, and explained the penalty can be set equal to "the money that they walk away with from a transaction." He added the bill authorizes two fraud investigators paid from the mortgage recovery and real-estate recovery funds.
Also on consent, the Senate passed House Bill 64, which requires that state executive-branch agencies provide an analysis of the impact of proposed administrative rules on small businesses when those rules are proposed, said Senator Stevenson. The Senate placed the bill on the consent calendar and later corrected the roll call to reflect 25 yes votes.
Other consent items approved and transmitted to the House included: first substitute Senate Bill 162 (Pete Suazo Utah Athletic Commission language that stakeholders are consolidating across related bills), first substitute Senate Bill 123 (search-consent language for parolees tied to U.S. Supreme Court precedent), Senate Bill 29 (in-stream flows to protect trout habitat), Senate Bill 44 (scrap-metal transaction identification requirements) and a slate of additional house bills and joint resolutions.
Where votes were recorded on the floor, the tally was entered in open session and the successful measures were returned to the House for its signature or further action.
The Senate president declared a quorum present for the proceedings. Most of the consent items passed unanimously or by lopsided margins and will now proceed to the House for final action.
