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Senate clears consent and third-reading calendar, approving multiple bills including tax, traffic and education measures
Summary
The Utah Senate moved through the consent calendar and third-reading items, approving a package of bills — including measures on sales-tax reporting, traffic-accident clearance, water-right liens, vehicle sales tax, insurance premium refunds, and career and technical education changes — mostly by unanimous recorded votes.
The Utah Senate completed its consent calendar and approved several third-reading bills on the floor before adjourning.
On the consent calendar the chamber circled then later removed some items and passed multiple measures, including House Bill 65 (changes to reporting requirements for transactions exempt from sales and use tax) and House Bill 258 (amendments to notice provisions for subdivision changes). Senate action on these items was recorded as unanimous voice or recorded votes and the measures were returned to the House for signature.
Senators also approved House Bill 24, a traffic-accident clearance amendment sponsored by Senator Greiner. "It allows you to pull your vehicle to the side of the road and not incur any issues ... as long as it's under $1,500," Greiner said on the floor, describing the bill as recommended by the Transportation Interim Committee to allow safer removal of minor-accident vehicles.
Other bills passed on third reading included House Bill 85 (giving a 180-day grace period before a levy on a judicial lien against water rights), House Bill 54 (closing a sales-tax loophole on vehicle transfers between individuals), House Bill 266 (narrowly expanding wrongful-lien relief to certain chain-of-title parties), House Bill 33 (extending refund rules to Medicare supplement insurance), and House Bill 15 (Career and Technical Education Amendments). Most measures passed by unanimous recorded vote; several roll-call tallies showed 27–29 yeas and few absences recorded on the floor.
What comes next: Passed bills will be returned to the House for its action or signature as required. The Senate adjourned and scheduled the Rules Committee to meet shortly after adjournment.
The floor record shows limited debate on these items; where questions were raised (for example during discussion of career and technical education governance), senators asked for clarifications of program coordination and credit-transfer relationships. No floor amendments to these bills were recorded in the transcript.
