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Senate clears large batch of bills on third-reading calendar, including pedestrian safety, license-plate transfer and education checks
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 carried (transcript records roll-call ayes).
- House Bill 145 (Pedestrian Safety Amendments): recorded as receiving 28 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 1 absent; passed and will be sent to the House for the speaker's signature.
- House Bill 162 (License Plate Transfer Amendment): recorded as receiving 26 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 3 absent; passed and sent to the House.
- House Bill 94 (Uniform real property transfer on death): moved and passed on the third-reading calendar (roll-call aye responses recorded in transcript).
- House Bill 236 (Public education reference check amendments): sponsor explained the bill requires LEAs to obtain reference checks for volunteers or job applicants with unsupervised student access; transcript records 23 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 6 absent and the bill passed.
- House Bill 29 (Public Employees Long Term Disability Act Amendments): described as cleanup for URS/PEHP provisions; passed on voice/roll-call.
- Other items advanced or handled on the calendar included: bills on food-truck regulation (SB 167), residential solar disclosure (SB 157), ISP notice for filtering options (SB 134, third substitute), and multiple retirement/pension reporting clarifications (HB 147). Several bills were moved to 'circle' for later consideration where sponsors asked for additional offline discussions.
Why it matters: Third-reading passage is the final Senate step for many bills before they are transmitted to the House (or, for House-origin bills on the Senate floor, returned to the House for signature). Many of the passed measures are technical or targeted fixes but include items with direct consumer or public-safety effect.
Next steps: Passed Senate measures will be signed by the president of the Senate and sent to the House as recorded in the transcript; items moved to 'circle' will be revisited later or returned to committee as indicated during floor debate.
