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Utah Senate passes package of bills on transportation, expungement, child-welfare and more
Summary
The Utah State Senate approved a series of bills on the third-reading calendar, including measures to add a county to the Children's Justice Center list, create a transportation safety funding account, permit expungement after certain dismissals, and update rules for vehicle platooning. Several bills passed unanimously or with large majorities.
The Utah State Senate advanced and approved a slate of bills during its floor session, moving measures on child-protection services, transportation safety funding, criminal-record expungement and other policy matters forward.
On the consent calendar, the Senate passed SB 81, which authorizes the attorney general to add Juab County to the list of jurisdictions served by Children's Justice Centers to ensure services for child-abuse victims in rural areas. Senator Okerlund, who presented the measure, said the change would "ensure services to child abuse victims in the rural part of the state." The president directed that a unanimous vote be recorded.
Senators also approved House Bill 26, a transportation-safety funding amendment sponsored in the Senate by Senator Buxton. Buxton said the bill "opens an account where [private] funds...can be held and used for public safety programs with schools," allowing private individuals to deposit funds for school-related safety initiatives through a Department of Transportation account. The bill passed on roll…
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