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Votes at a glance: key measures the Utah Senate advanced Feb. 21, 2013
Summary
The Senate read multiple bills for third reading and recorded final votes on several measures; this roundup lists each bill, a one-line description and the floor tally announced in the transcript.
The Utah Senate took recorded votes on a series of bills and resolutions during its Feb. 21, 2013 floor session. Below are the measures the transcript shows moving forward or being passed, with the vote tallies as announced on the floor.
Votes and outcomes (as announced on the floor):
- SCR 6 (federal gas tax support): Passed — 27 yay, 0 nay, 2 absent (announced at SEG 242-244).
- SB 94 (Government records amendments / URS transparency): Passed — 28 yay, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 391-393).
- SB 62 (Governor's fire suppression authority): Passed — 28 yay, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 518-520).
- SB 120 (Target shooting and wildfire regulations): Passed — 29 yay, 0 nay, 0 absent (SEG 589-591).
- SB 97 (propelling a bodily substance amendments): Passed — 26 yay, 2 nay, 1 absent (SEG 636-639) after recorded votes and individual corrections on the floor.
- SB 98 (related public-safety bill): Passed — 18 yay, 9 nay, 2 absent (SEG 738-740).
- SB 65 (election code financial reporting requirement amendments): Read for a third time — 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent (SEG 938-940).
- SB 172 (use of bond proceeds by political subdivisions): Read for a third time — 26 yay, 0 nay, 3 absent (SEG 1036-1038).
- SJR 11 (resolution on environmental and development policies / Agenda 21): Passed for third reading — 25 yay, 1 nay, 3 absent (SEG 1317-1319).
- SB 39 (parental responsibility for sex-education instructional materials): Read for third time — 22 yay, 1 nay, 6 absent (SEG 1534-1536).
- SB 175 (assessment of college readiness): Read for a third time — announced as read for third time (SEG 1639-1642).
- First substitute SB 68 (state surplus property program): Advanced to third reading — 26 yay, 0 nay, 3 absent (SEG 3478-3480).
- Second substitute SB 104 (vulnerable users of highways): Advanced to third reading after floor debate — recorded 20 yay, 6 nay, 3 absent (SEG 3049-3051). (Floor debate indicates sponsor and others will refine definitions and possibly offer amendments on third reading.)
What this list shows: many measures were read for a third time and several were passed unanimously or with large majorities. Where the transcript records a tally, the results above reproduce the floor announcement. For bills that were "circled" or "substituted," the Senate used the floor process to give members and the public time to review substitute language before final votes.
