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Votes at a glance: key bills passed by the Utah Senate floor on Feb. 28, 2017
Summary
Summary list of principal bills considered that day and the Senate floor outcomes (final tallies where recorded on the floor): opioid prescribing limits (HB50) passed; provisional concealed carry for 18–20-year-olds (HB198) passed; student- and education-related substitutes and several concurrence motions passed; multiple bills were transmitted to the House for signature.
The Senate floor session recorded numerous final actions and concurrence votes. Not all items below contain full roll-call names but reflect floor outcomes announced in the transcript.
- Second substitute House Bill 50 (opioid prescribing regulation): Passed on floor suspension; sponsor described a seven-day limit on most initial Schedule II/III prescriptions and database-check rules for first prescriptions longer than three days. (Senate action: passed; roll-call recorded.)
- House Bill 198 (provisional concealed-carry permit for 18–20-year-olds): Passed under suspension after floor debate and recorded roll-call; supporters cited campus-safety reasons and training requirements; opponents raised youth suicide risks. (Senate action: passed; roll-call recorded.)
- Second/third-substitute education and technical measures (e.g., SB 61, HB 303, HB 236, HB 245, HB 262, HB 274): Multiple substitutes were concurred in or passed on the floor and returned to the House for signature; several recorded tallies (examples: multiple substitute bills recorded as passing with 26–29 yay votes in the transcript). (Senate action: passed/concurred.)
- House Bill 156 (state job application process / criminal-history question amendment): Senate passed amendment to delay initial disclosure of convictions for many public-employer positions (exemptions remain), and voted to suspend three readings and adopt the change. (Senate action: passed.)
- Conference committee reports and concurrent resolutions (e.g., HCR 1 on public lands): Adopted and passed as reported by conference committees; several were sent back to the House. (Senate action: adopted.)
Many other bills were read, considered and placed on calendars; the clerk recorded numerous communications that bills had been signed by the House speaker and transmitted back to the Senate for signature. For specific bill text, recorded roll-call tallies and recorded dissenters, consult the official enrolled versions and the legislative clerk's roll-call record.
