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Votes at a glance: key bills the Utah Senate approved on the final session day
Summary
On the final day of the 2019 session the Utah Senate approved a long concurrence calendar and a string of bills — including higher-education capital appropriations, economic development, pipeline infrastructure amendments, telemedicine reimbursement changes, telemedicine reimbursement, and several housekeeping and policy measures — returning them to the House for signature where applicable.
The Utah Senate finished a packed agenda on the last day of the 2019 session by passing a large concurrence calendar and multiple bills under suspension of the rules. Key outcomes recorded on the floor included:
• Second Substitute Senate Bill 102 (higher education capital facilities) — Passed 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent; returned to the House for the speaker's signature.
• Fourth Substitute Senate Bill 172 (economic development amendments) — Passed 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent; returned to the House.
• Third Substitute Senate Bill 248 (throughput infrastructure amendments) — Passed 21 yea, 6 nay, 2 absent; returned to the House.
• Second Substitute House Bill 132 (beer amendments / alcohol ABW changes) — Senate concurred and passed; later recorded votes reflect passage and return to the House.
• House bills on consent and concurrence (examples): House Bill 338 (tobacco retail permit clarifications), House Bill 416 (educational services for students in state custody), House Bill 425 (local government officer bonding amendments), and many others were approved by unanimous or recorded roll-call votes and ordered returned to the House for further processing.
• House Bill 3 92 (Telemedicine reimbursement amendments) — Passed 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent; expands reimbursement to medically reasonable telemedicine services under PEHP and Medicaid.
The Senate also placed several recalled bills at the top of the third reading calendar for further floor action (for example, Sixth Substitute Senate Bill 123 — election process amendments — which the House refused to recede and a conference committee was appointed). The flow of concurrence votes and roll calls on the consent calendar marked the Senate's procedural closeout of business for the session's final day.
