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Votes at a glance: multiple House bills and resolutions pass the Utah Senate
Summary
The Utah Senate cleared a slate of House bills and concurrent resolutions on day 25, including HB208 (landowner liability), HB62 (school supplies), HB85 (forensic phlebotomy), HB18 (kidnapping registry amendments), HB246 (county correctional funding), HB289 (corrections education reauthorization, amended), and two concurrent resolutions recognizing Navajo electrification (HCR6) and Canada–Utah relations (HCR2). Most measures passed by unanimous or lopsided margins on the consent/third-reading calendars.
The Utah Senate advanced and passed numerous House bills and concurrent resolutions during its day 25 session, moving several measures back to the House for enrollment or final signature.
Key outcomes:
- First substitute Senate Bill 233 (appropriations subcommittee name changes) passed on the consent calendar, recorded as 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent; transmitted to the House for enrollment.
- House Bill 208 (limits on landowner liability for public recreation) passed by roll call, 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent.
- House Concurrent Resolution 6 (Navajo electrification demonstration project) passed 26–1 with 2 absent; sponsor requested Congress appropriate $15 million per year for five years to extend electrification where 18,000 of 48,000 households lack electricity.
- House Bill 62 (school supplies) passed; proponents emphasized that lists of suggested supplies would be voluntary and schools will provide supplies to students who cannot afford them (26 yeas, 3 absent).
- House Bill 85 (Forensic Phlebotomy) passed 27–0 (2 absent), allowing paramedics to draw blood for potential admission in criminal cases if chain-of-custody and evidentiary requirements are met.
- House Bill 18 (kidnapping offender amendments) passed as amended, 28–0 (1 absent); it creates a judicial process for certain offenders to petition removal from the offender registry when aggravating circumstances are absent.
- House Bill 246 (County Correctional Facilities Funding Amendments) passed 28–0 (1 absent), changing county reimbursement methodology to a five-year average.
- House Bill 289 (reauthorization of corrections education programs) was amended on the floor to shorten the repeal-extension period from 10 years to five (changing the sunset from 2022 to 2017) and passed as amended (27 yeas, 2 absent).
- House Concurrent Resolution 2 (recognizing Canada–Utah economic and historic relationships) passed under suspension of rules (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent). The Senate welcomed visiting Canadian officials and later resolved into a Committee of the Whole to hear the Consul General.
- House Concurrent Resolution 5 designating 02/18/2012 as Utah's Congressional Gold Medal Day for veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the MIS passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent) after floor recognition of veterans and family members.
Several items were placed on calendars (e.g., HB285 returned to the top of the third-reading calendar by motion). The Senate recessed for lunch and announced committee and caucus meetings.
The majority of these measures passed with bipartisan support; votes and enrollment actions will be handled by staff before return to the originating House for final signatures.
