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Senate advances a package of bills; many pass on voice or roll-call votes
Summary
On day three of the 2010 Utah Senate session, lawmakers passed a slate of bills on education testing, criminal penalties, tax rules, transportation, elections and licensing; most measures were approved by unanimous or near-unanimous votes and will be transmitted to the House.
The Utah Senate moved a broad set of bills forward on the floor during its third day of session, approving measures on school testing, criminal-penalty adjustments, tax code changes, and transportation provisions.
Senate Bill 16, which the sponsor said simplifies the UPASS student assessment system, passed on a roll-call vote with 28 yea, 0 nay and 1 absent and will be forwarded to the House. Earlier, the chamber adopted committee reports placing several bills on the second-reading calendar.
Senate Bill 10 — described by its sponsor as strengthening penalties for crimes committed in association with criminal street gangs and updating dollar thresholds in theft and burglary statutes — was amended on the floor to change the bill’s effective date and later passed on a roll call (27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent). The sponsor said the changes also clarify juvenile-court certification factors and raise certain damage thresholds to reflect inflation.
Other bills approved include Senate Bill 18 (election modifications), Senate Bill 21 (amendments to social-worker licensing, adopted with a four-word floor amendment), Senate Bill 23 (corporate franchise and income tax allocation rules), Senate Bill 25 (state highway system modifications), Senate Bill 28 (removing a scanned-return filing method), Senate Bill 29 (definition of resident individual for income-tax purposes) and Senate Bill 30 (recodification of local-option transportation sales taxes). Most of those measures were reported passed by voice or roll-call votes and will be referred to the House for further action.
Senators also circled several items (moved them off active consideration for now), including Senate Bill 17 and other measures the body deferred while staff or sponsors finalize amendments.
The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. the following day.
