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Senate advances bill limiting municipal registries but places intent to preserve hospital visitation
Summary
The Utah Senate passed First Substitute Senate Bill 299, a permissive statute on municipal registries, after lengthy debate about whether municipal registries could affect hospital-visitation rights; lawmakers adopted intent language to preserve existing municipal hospital-visitation practices.
The Utah Senate passed First Substitute Senate Bill 299 on a 21–7 roll-call after an extended floor debate that centered on whether the measure would interfere with local registries and hospital-visitation policies.
Senator Bell, sponsor of the bill, said the legislation is “a 30,000 foot type policy decision” designed to be permissive, not prescriptive: the bill allows municipalities to create a registry that could confer certain rights or benefits between financially dependent or interdependent adults but also contains a prohibition against creating registries that confer marriage-like status. Bell moved intent language into the Senate record stating that enactment “not disturb…
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