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Senate floor recap: bills and resolutions sent to third reading or final passage, Feb. 28, 2008
Summary
The Senate recorded multiple procedural and final votes: several bills were advanced to third reading (HB121 amended, HB177, HB182, HB309, HB323) and some items were circled or failed (first substitute HB223 failed); resolutions honoring Gordon B. Hinckley and declaring March colorectal cancer awareness month passed.
The Utah Senate’s Feb. 28 floor session produced numerous procedural and final actions. Items advanced to the third-reading calendar and final-passage resolutions included the following highlights.
Votes and outcomes - House Bill 121 (Charges for Services to Incarcerated Persons): Amendment 4 adopted; bill advanced to third reading (25 yes, 3 nay, 2 absent). The amendment sets reimbursement for ER physicians at a negotiated standard (65% of PEHP amount in Salt Lake County) and establishes a Medicaid-rate baseline for facilities.
- House Bill 177 (County and Municipal Land Use Regulation of Potential Geologic Hazard Areas): Ordered read for the third time after roll-call (22 yes, 0 nay, 8 absent); bill would authorize local regulation of development in potential geologic hazard and floodplain areas and provide a three-member technical appeal panel.
- House Bill 182 (Deadline for voting precinct designation): Moved to third reading (recorded 22 yes votes).
- First Substitute House Bill 223 (Exemption from licensure by division of real estate): Failed on roll call (9 yes, 18 nay, 2 absent).
- First Substitute House Bill 309 (Election Information Amendment): Passed to third reading (26 yes, 0 nay, 3 absent); sponsor described the bill as an informational measure to publish election results on county websites and include more referendum text in voter pamphlets.
- First Substitute House Bill 323 (Eminent domain amendment): Recorded as passed to the third-reading calendar (transcript initially records 15 yes, 9 nay, 5 absent; a later tally in the transcript varies); the bill clarifies municipal condemnation authority for park purposes following a court decision described by the sponsor.
Resolutions - First Substitute House Concurrent Resolution 6 (Honoring Gordon B. Hinckley) — final passage recorded (23 yes, 0 nay, 6 absent). - House Joint Resolution 3 (Reaffirming words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance) — moved to the third-reading calendar and recorded as passed. - House Concurrent Resolution 7 (Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month) — advanced with unanimous support.
Procedural notes - The Rules Committee report was adopted and several bills were placed on the second-reading calendar or circled for further consideration. - The Senate set floor time to start at 9:00 a.m. the next day and adjourned.
Recorded vote tallies and outcomes above are taken from the Senate floor transcript for Feb. 28, 2008. Where the transcript contains differing tallies (see HB323), the article reports the first recorded roll-call result and notes that the transcript subsequently shows a variant tally.
