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Consent calendar: Senate unanimously advances dozens of bills including interpreter certification, archives revisions and license-plate measures
Summary
On Day 38 the Senate moved a large consent calendar with minimal debate, advancing measures on medical interpreter certification, records/archives revisions, license-plate programs, and technical amendments; most items passed unanimously and will be returned to the House for signature or enrolled as appropriate.
The Utah Senate moved rapidly through a broad consent calendar, advancing many bills with little floor debate and sending several to the House or for enrollment.
Among the items advanced by unanimous or largely unanimous votes were House Bill 144 (Medical Language Interpreter Act), which places a certification title on medical language interpreters; House Bill 375 (Local Government Records Amendments); House Bill 292 (traffic-citation amendments); House Bill 287 (Utah Education Network amendments); and measures establishing special-group license plates whose proceeds fund causes such as the Humane Society of Utah.
Clerks reported a series of House and Senate-to-House transmittals early in the morning; the President directed that unanimous votes be cast or recorded when no dissenting names were heard. Committee reports (for example, a Retirement and Independent Entities committee recommendation on SB76 energy amendments) were adopted and several substituted bills were placed on the second-reading calendar for later action.
These consent items were carried as routine business with sponsors offering one- or two-sentence explanations for their bills and no extended debate. The consent calendar concluded and the body moved on to circled and second- and third-reading items.
