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Senate advances dozens of bills in midday session; several measures pass to the House
Summary
The Utah Senate moved a large bundle of bills and resolutions on Day 37, voting to pass a mix of policy and procedural measures — including education, criminal justice reporting, health and ethics items — while some bills failed to reach required majorities.
The Utah Senate spent its Day 37 calendar moving a broad slate of legislation, approving a number of bills and resolutions and sending them to the House for consideration.
Among the measures the Senate passed were a commemorative joint resolution marking the 50th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, criminal-justice reporting requirements to track inmate deaths and medication refusals, student-data and early-literacy amendments, and several health- and employment-related bills. The Senate adopted multiple committee reports early in the session and voted to transmit a long list of House-passed bills to Senate committees.
Votes of note included the second substitute of Senate Bill 205 (incarceration reporting) approved after clarifying language to avoid HIPAA-protected details, and Senate Concurrent Resolution 12, a nonbinding resolution urging communities and schools to reduce gang activity. Several items were carried forward or circled for later consideration; a handful of bills did not clear the Senate because they failed to reach the required constitutional majority or were defeated on final passage.
Senators also welcomed student groups and local guests to the gallery and used the floor to recognize community members. The body recessed for lunch and planned to reconvene at 2 p.m.
What’s next: measures passed by the Senate will move to the House for consideration, and bills circled for third reading will be returned to the calendar after the recess.
