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Votes at a glance: Senate passes multiple bills and resolutions, and advances several others
Summary
On Day 15 the Utah Senate placed numerous bills on calendars and passed or forwarded a set of bills and concurrent resolutions including SB48 (consent), SB90, HCR5, SCR4, SB55, SB53 and SB103; several measures were circled for later action or amended on the floor.
The Utah Senate handled a range of bills and concurrent resolutions on Day 15, adopting several measures by voice or roll-call and placing other bills on calendars for further consideration.
Key actions recorded in the session transcript:
- First substitute Senate Bill 48 (Utah Historical Society nonlapsing authority) was moved on the consent calendar and the President directed a unanimous vote; the transcript records, “first substitute Senate Bill 48, having received 25, 0, 4 being absent, passes,” and it was forwarded to the House.
- First substitute Senate Bill 90 (Mental Health Professional Practice Act) passed third reading by roll call with 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent and will be transmitted for House action (covered in detail in a separate item).
- House Concurrent Resolution 5 (recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America) was suspended from rules, read a second and third time and adopted by roll call, recorded as 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent; it was signed in open session to be returned to the House.
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 (dental health care) passed by roll call with 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent and was placed on the third-reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 55 (allowing institutions of higher education to charter charter schools) was amended on the floor (clarified that the 1% overhead fee goes to the institution) and was recorded as passing and placed at the bottom of the third-reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 53 (Voter Challenge Revisions) passed on third reading (roll call recorded 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent) and was placed at the bottom of the third-reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 103 (adverse possession of real property) was read and passed with a roll-call result recorded in the transcript (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent) and was placed at the bottom of the third-reading calendar.
Other procedural actions included assigning bills to standing committees, circling several bills for further work (e.g., SB108, SB107, SB27 after amendment), and substituting titles and bodies where sponsors presented substituted text. The Senate adjourned until the next scheduled session day.
The transcript records vote tallies as read into the record; where the clerk reported specific yea/nay/absent counts these are summarized above and appear in the official journal.
