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Senate clears large batch of bills on third-reading calendar, including pedestrian safety, license-plate transfer and education checks

Utah State Senate · February 23, 2018
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Summary

The Utah Senate moved a large group of third-reading bills, recording unanimous or near-unanimous passage on many technical and policy items including pedestrian-safety amendments (HB 145), license-plate transfer (HB 162), and public-education reference checks (HB 236).

On its third-reading calendar the Utah Senate moved a broad slate of bills, passing numerous measures that the chamber described as technical fixes, public-safety updates or consumer protections.

Notable items and outcomes recorded in the transcript excerpt included:

- SJR 13 (recognition of 50 years of emergency medicine): recorded as receiving 24 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 5 absent; sent to the House for consideration.

- House Bill 31 (Telecommunications Network Review Amendments): sponsor described the bill as eliminating a bar on public hearings tied to rate changes and encouraging public input; the motion to pass…

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