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Votes at a Glance: Key Roll Calls from the Utah Senate Floor, March 7, 2014
Summary
The Senate approved multiple House bills including changes to trust lands oversight (H.B. 168), driver-license sanctions (H.B. 137) and the plant-extract amendments (H.B. 105); it rejected House Bill 84 on school-district-split rules. This roundup lists outcomes and vote counts.
Several measured actions and roll-call outcomes on the Senate floor are summarized below. All tallies are drawn from the floor record.
Confirmed appointments - Tupac A. G. Renteria, Third District Juvenile Court: approved (24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent). - Keith C. Barnes, Fifth District Court: approved (28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent).
Selected bill outcomes - First substitute House Bill 168 (school and institutional trust lands and funds management): passed (28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent). Sponsors said the bill creates oversight and a small office to manage approximately $1.8 billion in permanent funds.
- Ninth substitute House Bill 105 (plant-extract/CBD amendments): passed (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent). The substitute added independent lab testing and University of Utah data-sharing for a two-year program focused on intractable pediatric epilepsy.
- First substitute House Bill 137 (driver license sanctions for minors with repeated DUI violations): passed (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent). The bill allows conditional return of licenses for certain young offenders after a one-year clean period and sworn statements.
- First substitute House Bill 143 (psychiatric nurse amendments): passed (23 yea, 0 nay, 6 absent).
- First substitute House Bill 392 (delegate responsibility amendments) and multiple other bills were read, circled or encircled for further consideration; HJR 21 (sovereign character of PILT) passed and will be transmitted to the House (22 yea, 2 nay, recorded as passed in open session).
Failed floor action - First substitute House Bill 84 (school district division amendments): failed (11 yea, 18 nay).
Procedure notes - Several bills were adopted under suspension of the three-reading rule and then sent to the House because they were amended in the Senate. Many items were also circled or moved on the second-reading calendar for later floor consideration.
This roundup covers the principal roll calls recorded during the March 7, 2014 Senate floor session; additional bills were lifted from rules and placed on second-reading calendars during the same sitting.
