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Senate advances a broad slate of bills on consent and third reading, sending measures to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate approved a large consent calendar and advanced multiple bills on third reading Feb. 4, 2008 — including measures on healthcare directives, hunting, records access, education transportation and tax apportionment — sending them to the House for further action.
The Utah Senate used its morning session Feb. 4 to clear a long consent calendar and pass numerous bills to the House.
Clerk and committee reports listed dozens of measures recommended for favorable action. On the consent calendar the chamber approved S.B.161 (Advanced Healthcare Directive Amendments), S.B.164 (statutory prohibition on internet-enabled remote hunting), S.B.77 (amendments to the Government Records Access and Management Act), S.B.158 (Governor’s Rural Partnership Board amendments) and others; recorded tallies for those consent items were unanimous or near-unanimous and each bill was referred to the House.
On third reading the Senate also passed S.B.36, permitting charter and state-sponsored online students to participate in extracurricular activities at resident schools (Senator Madsen); S.B.118, which establishes an 85% funding target and minimum allocations for education transportation (Senator Petersen); and S.B.28, the Single Sales Factor business-income apportionment bill (Senator Stevenson), among others. Sponsors described S.B.118 as mainly a technical change to audited reporting and S.B.28 as a phased tax-apportionment change with a fiscal note of about $22 million for 2010.
The session ended with scheduling announcements and a recess until 2:00 p.m. The Senate’s clerk and committee reports show the roll-call tallies and committee recommendations for each bill passed in the morning session.
