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Senate advances multiple bills; consent calendar clears and several measures set for third reading
Summary
On Day 17 the Utah Senate approved numerous consent-calendar bills, amended House and Senate measures, circled bills for technical fixes and tabled a tax-credit bill on fiscal grounds; several bills were passed to the third-reading calendar.
The Utah Senate’s Day 17 floor session moved a wide set of bills forward, advancing several on unanimous or recorded votes, adopting floor amendments, and tabling at least one item for fiscal reasons.
On the consent calendar, the Senate recorded passage of Second Substitute House Bill 39 (Optometry Practice Act amendments), which preserves eyeglass prescriptions and broadens access to fill them; the president directed a unanimous vote and the clerk recorded the passage and return to the House for signature. House Bill 73 (pre-need funeral insurance filings) passed on consent after the sponsor described it as a narrow change removing a sequential-number requirement.
Other measures the Senate advanced or amended on Feb. 3 include:
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 (encouraging advanced health care directives), presented by Sen. Jones; the resolution passed unanimously and will be forwarded to the House. - Senate Bill 148 (transportation maintenance facilities), presented by Sen. Adams; the bill passed and will go to the House. - Senate Bill 143…
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