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Utah Senate adopts Rules Committee report; dozens of bills assigned to standing committees
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted the Rules Committee report by voice vote, assigning a lengthy slate of Senate bills to standing committees and placing several measures on the second-reading calendar; four bills (SB116–SB119) were introduced and sent to the Rules Committee.
The Utah Senate adopted the Rules Committee report and assigned numerous bills to standing committees after a recommendation from the Rules Committee and a motion by Senator Margaret Dayton.
The committee recommended assignments including Senate Bill 15, 31 and 103 to the Business and Labor Committee; SB 92, 100, 104 and 105 to the Education Committee; SB 88, 93 and Senate Joint Resolution 2 to the Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee; SB 20 and SB 21 to Health and Human Services; SB 32, SB 90, SB 91, SB 97 and SB 98 to Judiciary/Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (and related committees); SB 44 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 to Revenue and Taxation; SB 23 and SB 35 to Transportation, Public Utilities and Technology; SB 41, SB 94, SB 95 and SB 99 to Workforce Services and Community and Economic Development. The report was adopted by voice vote.
The Rules Committee also recommended placing a set of bills at the bottom of the second-reading calendar, including SB10 (Statewide Art Inventory), SB12 (DUI amendment), SB13 (administering substances to wildlife), SB16 (prohibited gang activity), SB17 (surface coal mining amendments), SB18 (Utah Transparency Advisory Board amendments), SB19 (criminal offense penalties amendment), SB22 (street-legal ATV amendment), SB24 (early voting amendment), SB25 (online voter registration), SB26 (open and public meetings act — meeting records), and SB27 (election law changes); the Senate adopted that recommendation as well.
Senate members also introduced four new bills — SB116 (Criminal Penalty and Prosecution Amendment), SB117 (Advanced Healthcare Directive Act Amendment), SB118 (Parental Responsibility for Juvenile Criminal Gang Offence Costs) and SB119 (Hospital Emergency Boom Task Force) — and the President announced those measures will be assigned to the Rules Committee.
"We have the option of putting on the board those that ... had favorable unanimous reports out of the interim committee," Senator Dayton said, explaining the selection process and numerical ordering. The adoption was by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were recorded on the floor for these motions in the transcript.
