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Utah Senate clears long consent calendar and passes major floor bills, including pharmacy practice revisions
Summary
The Utah Senate used a packed consent calendar and third‑reading calendar to pass a large number of House and Senate bills on Feb. 17, 2012, and approved a contested pharmacy practice bill that allows oncologists to dispense certain cancer regimens with restrictions. Votes and summaries below.
The Utah Senate convened Feb. 17 and moved a lengthy consent and third‑reading calendar, approving scores of House and Senate bills on mostly unanimous voice or roll‑call votes. Bills passed ranged from administrative changes to public safety and health‑care policy; one bill that drew sustained floor debate — a pharmacy practice revision — passed on a recorded roll call.
Most of the consent items were noncontroversial and passed with unanimous or near‑unanimous support. First substitute House Bill 19 — creating state‑issued identity numbers to replace use of the nine‑digit Social Security number as systems reprogram — was presented as a measure to reduce identity‑theft risk and passed unanimously. House Bill 100 (social worker exam accommodations) cleared the Senate after sponsors said the measure addresses exam performance disparities for some foreign‑born applicants and members of federally recognized…
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