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Votes at a glance: Senate advances bills on licenses, courts, taxes and health
Summary
On Feb. 14, 2018, the Utah Senate read and advanced a series of bills and resolutions covering commemorative license plates, commercial property tax treatment, driving-without-insurance changes, court-records petitions, and Medicaid family-planning waiver authorization; several measures recorded unanimous or near-unanimous support in the transcript excerpt.
The Utah Senate moved a batch of bills and resolutions through the day's calendar, recording passage or advancing measures to the House on multiple policy areas.
Notable floor actions recorded in the transcript excerpt include:
- Senate Bill 119 (special group license plate recognizing early women voters): read three times and recorded 27 yea votes, 0 nay (sent to the House for consideration).
- First substitute Senate Bill 76 (commercial property tax amendments): sponsor described a mechanism for tax treatment when state or local government leases property under certain triple-net leases; the bill was moved and passed out of the Senate and sent to the House.
- Senate Bill 97 (driving without insurance amendments): clarified enforcement when drivers cannot produce proof of insurance or are not found in the insurance database; penalties described for first and subsequent offenses; the Senate moved to pass the bill.
- Senate Bill 106 (court records amendments): allows a person whose criminal charge was dismissed to petition the court within 30 days to remove their name from the public record (while retaining case identifiers for law enforcement); transcript shows a recorded vote with 25 yea votes, 0 nay (as recorded in the excerpt).
- Senate Bill 107 (additional Third District judgeship): sponsor described the need for more judges in the Third District and the bill received recorded support and a recorded roll call in the excerpt.
- Senate Bill 120 (municipal transportation utility fee limitations): sponsor moved the bill and the Senate recorded votes in favor in the transcript excerpt.
- On the House calendar, House Bill 12 (family planning services amendments): the Senate moved HB 12 to third reading; sponsors emphasized potential fiscal return and public-health benefits.
- House Bill 89 and other House bills (election code updates, community reinvestment agency amendments, health facility licensing and SAFE Act carve-outs for nonprofits) were presented and advanced in committee or read for a third time as noted in the transcript.
Where the transcript excerpt records explicit roll-call tallies, those tallies are noted; for other items the excerpt shows motions, floor presentations, and recorded voice or roll-call activity but often does not include a complete, clearly labeled final tally in the excerpted segments. Each bill listed above appears in the transcript with sponsor remarks and floor action as summarized.
