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Votes at a glance: key outcomes from the Utah Senate on Feb. 21
Summary
Summary of notable roll-call outcomes and procedural actions from the Utah Senate session, including passage of bills placed on the third-reading calendar and substituted measures.
Here are the notable roll-call outcomes from the Utah Senate floor session on Feb. 21.
- First substitute Senate Bill 25 (driver license/ID amendments): Received 24 yea votes; placed at the bottom of the third‑reading calendar. (Result announced after roll call.)
- First substitute Senate Bill 101 (acupuncture licensing act amendments): Adopted substitute and passed third-reading with 26 yeas, 0 nays and 3 absent; placed on third‑reading calendar.
- Senate Joint Resolution 12 (Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week): Passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent); placed on third‑reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 172 (successor corporation asbestos-related liability): Passed (23 yeas, 6 absent); placed on third‑reading calendar.
- First substitute Senate Bill 193 (local government bonding tolling during appeals): Passed with 24 yeas and 0 nays, 5 absent; placed on third‑reading calendar.
- Senate Bill 173 (Utah Fit Premises Act amendments): Amendment adopted and bill passed second reading with 20 yeas, 0 nays and 9 absent; to third reading.
- Senate Bill 88 (pharmacy distribution amendments): Passed (21 yeas, 1 nay, 7 absent); to third reading.
- Senate Bill 27 (refunds for erroneously paid taxes): Passed 24–0 (5 absent); forward to House.
- Senate Bill 196 (software for students with disabilities): Passed 21–1 (7 absent); to third reading.
- First substitute Senate Bill 114 (contesting public procurements): Passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent); to third reading.
- Senate Bill 201 (expungement amendments): Passed (26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent); to third reading.
- House Bill 13 (offender registry review): Reconsidered and passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent); returned to House.
- First substitute House Bill 61 (portable electronics insurance-related amendments): Amended and passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent); returned to House.
This session included numerous other procedural motions (circling bills for substitutes, committee assignments and floor substitutions). For bills with fiscal notes discussed on the floor (notably SB27 and SB196), the Senate recorded the estimates during debate; those figures will be reconciled in the budget process.
