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Utah Senate adopts broad consent calendar including aging commission sunset change
Summary
The Utah Senate approved a broad consent calendar of committee-recommended measures, including a concurrence on a Utah Commission on Aging sunset amendment and several house bills routed to appropriations, all advanced by voice or unanimous recorded votes.
The Utah Senate on the morning calendar approved a wide set of committee-recommended measures on the consent calendar, advancing bills spanning education, licensing, capital facilities and local government board appointments.
Senators voted to concur in First Substitute Senate Bill 22, which updates the Utah Commission on Aging's sunset language to reflect the addition of an Alzheimer's group to the panel and corrects a typographical date change the House made. The motion to concur passed by voice; the transcript records the result as "24 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 5 being present." Senator Shiozawa explained the House change and Senator Harper raised a technical correction involving a mislabeled road designation.
The chamber also moved several house bills on consent. House Bill 27 (Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children) was considered under suspension of the rules and passed on consent; the transcript summarizes the vote as 23 yay votes with 6 present. Senator Kennedy described the compact's purpose as removing educational barriers for military families who move across state lines and noted the bill broadens coverage to guardsmen and reservists. House Bill 69 transfers responsibility for certain capital-facility grant processing from the Department of Heritage and Arts to appropriations committees, and House Bill 70 allows county assessors to treat common-area property as such for assessment purposes. First Substitute Senate Bill 143, clarifying who may be appointed to special service district boards, was recorded as passing with 26 yay votes and related absences noted in the transcript.
Committee chairs reported favorable recommendations on an array of measures before the Senate and placed many items on the consent calendar. Several items cited during committee reports included student data protection amendments, scholarship proposals for public safety officers, licensing-related bills, and health and human services measures. Where vote tallies were recorded in the transcript, those counts are reported here; other consent items were advanced by unanimous voice vote as noted on the floor.
The Senate recessed for lunch at about 12:10 p.m. and planned to reconvene at 2:00 p.m.
