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Votes at a glance: consent and third‑reading measures the Senate approved Friday
Summary
The Senate cleared multiple consent and third-reading bills on Day 12, including licensing, revisions, vehicle safety, education budget actions, and regulatory amendments. This roundup lists each bill, a one-line description and the recorded vote when given.
The Utah Senate on Day 12 recorded passage of numerous consent-calendar and third-reading items. Below are the principal measures the body approved during the session, with brief descriptions and the roll-call tally when recorded on the floor.
Senate Bill 85 — Utah Construction and Trade Licensing Act amendment: Amends supervision and apprenticeship rule language; passed on consent. Recorded vote as read on the floor: 24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent.
Senate Bill 110 — Reviser's statute (cleanup bill): Annual corrections to statutory drafting (numbering, grammar); placed on consent and passed: 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent.
House Bill 27 — Per diem and travel expense modifications: Standardizes reimbursements across councils and allows recipients to decline; passed on consent (24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent reported).
House Bill 44 — Referendum ballot proposition language amendments: Clarifies ballot instructions for voters; passed on consent (24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent reported).
Senate Bill 19 — Vehicle safety flags on off-highway vehicles: Floor amendment narrowed the bill to off-road motorcycles on sand dunes for a helmet-flag option; passed on recorded roll call: 23 yea, 0 nay, 6 absent.
House Bill 32 — Livestock Damage Compensation Amendment: Adds wolf-related provisions for delisted areas; passed on recorded roll call: 25 aye, 0 nay, 4 absent.
House Bill 14 — Juvenile transfers from Justice Court: Allows justice court judges to transfer juvenile matters to juvenile court when in the child's best interest; passed on roll call: 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent.
House Bill 33 — Groundwater Recharge and Recovery Act amendments: Addresses certificates for recharged groundwater and the state engineer’s issuance of evidentiary certificates; passed on roll call: 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent.
House Bill 38 — Scheduling of controlled substances: Establishes a panel of experts to advise on scheduling; amended and returned to the House for further action (vote recorded 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent).
For substitute Senate Bill 88 — Pharmacy Practice Act amendments: Allows physicians to prescribe and dispense a limited list of cosmetic and injectable weight-loss drugs under controlled inventory rules and administrative inspection authority; passed 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent.
Notes: Where the clerk read a recorded tally, that figure is listed; some roll-call lines in the transcript were garbled and figures are reported conservatively based on the floor record. The education budget (first substitute House Bill 1) and the second substitute to Senate Bill 108 (judicial nominations) were debated separately and are covered in standalone articles.
