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Utah Senate ends session by passing large package of bills, appointing conference committees
Summary
On the final day of its 2017 session the Utah Senate cleared a wide set of bills under suspension of the rules, including measures on solid-waste fee allocation, construction-trades licensing, governmental immunity, short-term rental advertising, and reforms for involuntary substance-use treatment; several items were circled for further review and a conference committee was appointed on affordable housing amendments.
The Utah State Senate convened for its final day and moved quickly through a long agenda, passing a bundle of bills under suspension of the rules and lifting several items for later review. President Niederhauser declared a quorum and senators handled the consent calendar before taking up a sequence of second- and third-reading bills.
Major floor actions included the passage of a fifth substitute to House Bill 115, which spreads oversight fees in the solid-waste sector to equalize the fee burden among private and public waste handlers; the Senate recorded the fifth substitute of HB 115 as passing with 27 yea votes and 1 nay. The chamber approved a substitute to House Bill 273 to set a five-year look‑back period for construction-trades licensing violations and to allow the licensing division to process multiple violations either together or separately. Senators also passed bills clarifying when…
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