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Votes at a glance: bills the Utah Senate passed and key floor actions
Summary
During the floor session the Senate passed a slate of bills on the consent and third-reading calendars (including SB21, HB304, HB301, SB173, SB152, SB156, SB32, SB61, SB124, SB166), circled several items for later consideration, and recessed for lunch; tallies are the chamber's recorded votes.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Senate’s floor session advanced numerous bills on consent and third reading and recorded roll-call tallies for final passage on several measures.
Key floor outcomes recorded on the transcript include:
- SB 21 (Unincorporated Business Entities): Passed, recorded as 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent (motion and passage recorded at SEG 226–233).
- HB 304 (Enterprise Zone Amendments): Passed, recorded as 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 245–258).
- HB 301 (Bail Bond Recovery Licensure Amendments): Passed, recorded as 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 281–294).
- SB 173 (Residential Construction Contract Amendments): Passed by unanimous voice/record (SEG 309–339).
- First Substitute SB 109 (Change Application Procedure): Passed 19 yea, 9 nay, 1 absent and transmitted to the House (detailed in the separate story on SB109) (SEG 1091–1095).
- First Substitute SB 152 (Alcohol- and drug-related plea provisions): Passed, recorded as 26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent (SEG 1169–1171).
- SB 156 (Jail Release Amendments): Passed, recorded as 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent (SEG 1211–1214).
- SB 32 (Environmental Health Scientist Act reauthorization): Passed, recorded as 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent (SEG 1255–1257).
- SB 61 (Hunting Permit Amendments): Passed as amended, recorded as 23 yea, 0 nay, 6 absent (SEG 1421–1424).
- First Substitute SB 124 (Sales/use tax exemption for database access): Passed, recorded as 23 yea (SEG 1461–1462).
- Second Substitute SB 166 (Hospital assessment amendments): Passed under suspension of the rules, recorded as 22 yea, 6 nay, 1 absent (SEG 2050–2053).
Other actions: several bills were ‘‘circled’’ (placed off the immediate calendar for later consideration), including some motions to circle SB109 during its debate (the motion to circle failed, SEG 695–703); some bills were explicitly placed on the consent calendar and advanced by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The full transcript includes roll-call sequences and sponsor explanations for each listed item.
Next procedural step: Bills that received final passage on the Senate floor will be transmitted to the Utah House of Representatives for consideration or returned to the Senate if the House amends them. Several items were circled for later floor action, and the Senate recessed until 2:10 PM.
Reported counts and motions are taken from the official floor transcript of the Utah State Senate session.
