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Senate rejects motion to lift LGBT nondiscrimination bill from rules after floor debate

Utah State Senate · February 28, 2011
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Summary

A motion to remove SB 148 (an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill) from the Rules Committee and send it to Business & Labor failed on the Senate floor (7‑21). Senator McAdams urged a public hearing and framed the measure as a healing conversation; opponents defended the rules process.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate voted down a motion to lift Senate Bill 148 from the Rules Committee and send it to the Business & Labor Committee for a public hearing. The roll call ended 7 yeas, 21 nays, with one senator absent.

Senator McAdams, who sponsored the effort, urged colleagues to begin a statewide…

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