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Senate advances a batch of bills in Friday floor session; key votes on education, records, and funding
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted committee reports and voted on a range of bills, including passage of GRAMA amendments, paraeducator funding, school-grading extension and several policy bills; many measures were forwarded to the House or placed on the third-reading calendar.
The Utah Senate spent its Friday floor session advancing a broad set of measures across education, public records, health and economic policy, adopting committee reports and voting to forward multiple bills to the House or to the third-reading calendar.
Under suspension of rules the chamber approved House Concurrent Resolution 11 honoring the sesquicentennial of St. George and heard remarks from Mayor Daniel D. MacArthur. Throughout the day senators debated and acted on bills ranging from school-grading timelines to public-records reforms.
Notable outcomes included passage of Senate Bill 177 (Government Records Access and Management Act amendments), which the sponsor described as the consensus product of a GRAMA working group that creates a public records ombudsman and requires records officers and annual training. The bill passed on a recorded vote and will go to the House.
The Senate also approved a targeted paraeducator funding appropriation (Senate Bill 81) aimed…
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