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Utah Senate advances and approves multiple bills on consent and third‑reading calendars
Summary
On day 15 of the 2009 Utah legislative session the Senate adopted a slate of committee reports, placed numerous bills on the second- and third-reading calendars and passed several measures by unanimous or recorded votes, including SB35 (tax definitions), SJR4 (electronics recycling), SB94 (sewer utility locate requirements) and SB20 (local public‑health emergency funding).
The Utah State Senate moved a large package of routine and substantive items on the consent and third‑reading calendars during its day‑15 session.
Senators adopted the Rules Committee report and placed dozens of bills in standing committees and on the second‑reading calendar. On the consent calendar and by recorded roll call the Senate passed Senate Bill 35, a clarification of sales-and-use tax definitions to designate certain installed items as tangible personal property; the clerk recorded 26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent and the bill was referred to the House. The Senate also passed Senate Joint Resolution 4 urging the Department of Environmental Quality and the Recycling Coalition of Utah to study electronics recycling (recorded as 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent).
Other measures handled on the consent calendar included House Bill 25 (gun dealer penalty amendments) and House Bill 47 (adding municipal attorney to the prosecutor definition in criminal procedure). The Senate approved Senate Bill 94, which requires plastic sewer laterals and cleanouts installed after Aug. 1, 2009, to be locatable and recorded for Bluestake use; the recorded vote was 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent. Senate Bill 115 (payment of mobile home park relocation expenses) passed by a recorded vote of 22 yeas and 5 nays and was sent to the House.
On public‑health policy, the Senate passed Senate Bill 20, which establishes a framework for local emergency public‑health funding, including a structure for grants with a referenced 50/50 match; sponsors cited two 2008 incidents that prompted the bill—a tuberculosis outbreak at Snow College that required roughly 800 students to be tested and a community pool bacterial contamination. The recorded vote for SB20 was 20 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent.
Several bills were circled (deferred for further drafting or fiscal information) rather than advanced immediately. Sponsors circled Substitute Senate Bill 36 pending a revised fiscal note and circled Senate Bill 91 (electronic communication harassment) after floor amendments and debate.
Procedural votes also included motions to reconsider prior concurrence actions on a House amendment, and the Senate instructed the leadership to pursue either House recission or a conference committee where disputes remained. The body adjourned after scheduling committee meetings and routine announcements; the Rules Committee was set to meet six minutes after adjournment.
Votes at a glance (selected outcomes reported on the floor): Senate Bill 35 — passed (26‑0, 3 absent); SJR4 — passed (27‑0, 2 absent); SB94 — passed (27‑0, 2 absent); SB115 — passed (22‑5, 2 absent); SB20 — passed (20‑0, 3 absent); several bills circled for further work (including SB36, SB91).
