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Votes at a glance: multiple Senate bills circled, substituted and ordered to third reading
Summary
The Senate moved numerous measures to third reading on Feb. 29, 2016, including SB121 (electric bikes), SB161 (highway signage), SB163 (kindergarten eligibility), SB164 (property-tax payment direction), SB166 (USTAR), SB186 (air quality incentives), SB187 (misdemeanor reclassification), SB193 (communications authority) and SB197 (procurement). Several items were circled for floor scheduling. Recorded tallies are shown where the transcript provides them.
During the Feb. 29 session, the Utah State Senate handled a high volume of bills, recording substitutions, amendments, roll-call tallies and several votes to place bills on the third-reading calendar. Below are the items explicitly recorded in the transcript excerpts and the outcomes shown in floor procedure:
- SB121 (first substitute): electric-bicycle classification. Outcome: first substitute adopted; ordered to third reading. Recorded tally in transcript: 22 yay, 3 nay, 4 absent.
- SB161 (first substitute as amended): highway signage clarifications and penalties. Outcome: substitute adopted and amended; ordered to third reading. Recorded tally in transcript: 25 yay, 1 nay, 3 absent.
- SB163: kindergarten age-exception amendments (committee-narrowed eligibility). Outcome: ordered to third reading. Recorded tally in transcript: 22 yay, 5 nay, 2 absent.
- SB164 (first substitute): property-tax payment direction for partial payments. Outcome: substitute adopted; ordered to third reading. Recorded tally in transcript: 24 yay, 0 nay.
- SB166 (first substitute): USTAR program refocus toward commercialization. Outcome: ordered to third reading. Recorded tally in transcript: 23 yay, 2 nay, 4 absent (as noted in floor listings).
- SB186: air quality incentives (Industrial Assistance Fund modifications). Outcome: circled and later uncircled; then ordered to third reading later in proceedings.
- SB187 (first substitute): misdemeanor reclassification. Outcome: amended and ordered to third reading (recorded as 22 yay, 0 nay, 7 absent in roll call listings).
- SB193 (first substitute as amended): Utah Communications Authority Act amendments responding to audit on 911/dispatch; outcome: amended and ordered to third reading (23 yay, 0 nay, 6 absent listed in roll calls).
- SB197 (first substitute): resale/procurement amendments. Outcome: ordered to third reading (recorded tally in transcript excerpt: 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent).
Several other bills were circled for scheduling or reconsideration (for example, SB125 reconsideration and placement on the second-reading calendar). The session ended after floor leaders reminded sponsors to secure House sponsors for bills lacking them and the Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. the following day.
A note on tallies: figures above reflect recorded tallies and procedural statements appearing in the provided transcript excerpt; for any final passage and enrollment status consult official legislative journals and enacted-session records.
