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Votes at a glance: bills the Utah Senate passed March 2, 2010
Summary
On March 2 the Utah Senate passed multiple bills on final passage including Senate Bill 150 (education), Senate Bill 191 (governmental accounting), Senate Bill 178 (EMS grants), Senate Bill 179 (corporate law), House Bill 114 (higher-ed donation disclosure, as amended), House Bill 201 (fire marshal modifications, as amended), and Senate Bill 225 (insurance driver exclusion). See roll-call counts in body.
The Utah Senate recorded final actions on several bills during the March 2, 2010 floor session. Key outcomes recorded on the floor are listed below with the vote counts as announced by the presiding officer.
- Senate Bill 150 (reading requirements for student advancement): final passage announced as "18 yay votes, 8 nay votes, 3 being absent"; will be forwarded to the House.
- First substitute House Bill 114 (disclosure of donations to institutions of higher education), as amended on the floor: "having received 22 yea votes, 6 nay votes, 1 being absent," passes and will be returned to the House.
- First substitute Senate Bill 77 (school district leave policies): transcript roll-call language records the substitute as passing; the floor records the roll call result in the live record for return to the House.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 99 (water-right change requests): failed on final passage "having received 9 yea votes, 19 nay votes, 1 being absent." Sponsors and opponents indicated the issue likely will receive further study.
- Senate Bill 191 (Governmental Accounting Amendment): amendment adopted on the floor and final passage recorded as "24 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 5 being absent."
- First substitute House Bill 201 (State Fire Marshal modifications), as substituted on the floor: announced as "having received 16 yay votes, 11 nay votes, 2 being absent," passes and will be returned to the House.
- Senate Bill 178 (Utah Emergency Medical Services System Act Amendments): recorded as "27 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 2 being absent" on final passage.
- Senate Bill 179 (Utah Revised Business Corporation Act amendments): final passage announced as "25 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 4 being absent."
- Senate Bill 225 (Motor Vehicle Insurance — named driver exclusion): recorded as "28 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 1 being absent."
These counts are the floor announcements recorded by the presiding officer in the transcript of the session. Several roll-call lists of individual senators appear in the record; the tallies above reproduce the floor-announce totals. Items sent to the House will appear in transmittal records.
