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Senate advances scores of bills on third-reading calendar, including changes to statute of limitations and education measures
Summary
The Utah Senate moved multiple measures forward on day 11, adopting committee reports and passing a series of bills on third reading (including SB 110, SB 100, SB 122 and HB 31). Several items were placed on the third-reading calendar or consent calendar and will be transmitted to the House as applicable.
The Utah State Senate adopted a wide set of committee reports and passed multiple measures during its day 11 session, voting to send several bills to the House and to place many others on the third-reading calendar.
On consent, the Senate passed Senate Bill 110 (Oil and Gas Limitation of Actions Amendment), described by the presenter as a technical correction to statute language. "This is actually a very straightforward bill," the presenter said, and the President directed the recorded unanimous vote of the senators present: "26 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 3 being absent"; the bill will be referred to the House.
Other bills passed on third reading included Senate Bill 100 (Financial and Economic Literacy Education Amendments), reported as passing with "26 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 3 being absent," and Senate Bill 122 (Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act), which passed by voice/roll call with "27 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 2 being absent." The Senate also adopted a rules committee report assigning numerous bills to standing committees and placed several items on the consent and third-reading calendars.
Several house bills and substitute measures were advanced for further action. For example, House Bill 31 (AED / sudden cardiac arrest defibrillators) was moved and recorded as passing with 27 yea votes and 0 nay votes; House Bill 12 (county sheriff qualification amendment) was passed on roll call with a recorded tally of 23 yea, 5 nay, 1 absent after floor discussion about certification and electoral impacts.
The session also included routine procedural motions to change posted time-certains and to circle or uncircle bills for off-floor handling. Where tallies were announced without an individual-by-individual roll call mapping in the oral record, this summary reports the official vote tallies as read into the record.
What happens next: Passed Senate bills will be transmitted to the House for that chamber's action; bills placed at the bottom of the third-reading calendar remain available for final floor action on subsequent days.
