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Senate clears a slate of bills on consent calendar; several measures forwarded to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted multiple committee reports and passed several consent calendar bills—including HB222 (land use notice), HB109 (Volunteer Government Workers Act), SB173 (corporate law cleanups), SB213 (advisory council for disabilities) and others—sending them to the House for further action or signature.
The Utah Senate adopted a series of committee reports and passed numerous measures on the consent and concurrence calendars on Day 29, moving several bills to the House or placing them on later reading calendars.
Key measures acted on the consent calendar included:
• House Bill 222 (land‑use meeting notice): amended public-hearing notice for land‑use ordinances to 10 days (from 3) and was recorded as passed and to be returned to the House for the Speaker’s signature (vote tally in the excerpt was not clear).
• House Bill 109 (Volunteer Government Workers Act): closed a workers’ compensation loophole for court-ordered community service performed pre‑conviction; the Senate directed a unanimous vote and the bill was returned to the House for the Speaker’s signature.
• Senate Bill 173 (corporation law housekeeping): noncontroversial amendments to registration/LLC processes; passed and will move forward.
• Senate Bill 213 (Division of Services for People with Disabilities advisory council): restored an unpaid advisory council; moved unanimously to the House.
• Committee reports from Health and Human Services, Education, Natural Resources, Ethics and other standing committees were adopted and the items were placed on the consent calendar or second‑reading/third‑reading calendars as the rules direct.
In other floor action, the Senate concurred with conference committee changes to second substitute SB90 (Mental Health Professional Practice Act amendments), adopting the conference committee report and passing SB90 (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent by roll call). The chamber also considered and passed SB126 (subdivision amendments) and several other third‑reading items; procedural motions included uncircling and reinstating bills for further consideration.
The measures on the consent calendar were largely presented as noncontroversial housekeeping or technical changes; where fiscal notes were noted (for example, SB61 later in the day showed modest fiscal estimates) senators requested updated fiscal notes where needed before final passage.
