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Votes at a glance: Senate passes a slate of bills, moves several to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted committee reports and advanced or passed multiple House and Senate bills on a floor session that included technical amendments and several unanimous approvals; the transcript lists tallies but not a detailed roll-call for individual members in every case.
The Utah State Senate on the floor advanced and passed a range of bills on procedural and policy matters and sent them to the House or for the governor's signature. Actions included committee assignments, placing bills on consent calendars and final passage of multiple measures ranging from tribal liaison adjustments to utility siting timelines.
Among the outcomes recorded on the floor: HB 252 (Native American/Indian-related amendments) passed with the clerk recording 23 yeas, 0 nays and six absent; HB 90 (expanded student fishing-license waiver) passed 26-0 with three absent; HB 60 (utility facility siting timing changes) passed 27-0 with two absent and was transmitted to the House for the Speaker's signature; SB 132 (medical education council amendments) passed 26-0 with three absent; SB 60 (abortion statistics/reporting) passed with a recorded 23 yeas and 5 nays; HB 73 (water easement amendments) was read for third reading after a 26-0 tally; House bills including HB 250 and HB 289 were similarly advanced for third reading with recorded tallies noted on the transcript; House Bill 33 (expungement process amendments) was reconsidered, amended to insert the word "felony" before "automobile homicide" in the eligibility section and then passed with a recorded 29-0 vote.
Clerks and sponsors announced motions adopting rules-committee reports and placing bills in committee or on calendars. Several items were acted on under suspension of rules or by unanimous voice votes where no objections were recorded. The transcript lists body-level tallies and frequent roll-call listings of senators' presence but does not provide a linked, per-member roll-call table for every vote; when individual votes were not explicitly read into the record the article reports the recorded tallies as noted on the floor.
Next steps: bills that passed were transmitted to the House or returned to the House for signature as noted on the record; items referred to standing committees will be considered through committee processes. Where the transcript recorded technical corrections or friendly amendments, sponsors stated those corrections were at the house sponsor's request and that the corrected text would be transmitted.
