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Utah Senate advances broad slate of bills in Feb. 25 floor session; summary of votes and actions
Summary
The Utah Senate on Feb. 25 advanced a wide range of legislation — from beer-content and food-truck rules to data and apprenticeship bills — approving multiple bills and sending them to the House; a handful of measures drew extended debate.
The Utah State Senate met Feb. 25 and passed a broad package of legislation covering economic development, public safety, education, transportation and administrative matters. Several bills drew minimal floor debate and were placed on the consent or second-reading calendars; a few prompted extended discussion.
Votes at a glance
- First Substitute House Bill 83 (statute-of-limitations clarification for credit-card debt): passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent). Sponsor: Senator Wyler.
- Senate Bill 56 (Community Reinvestment Agency report amendments — first substitute moved to place responsibility with GOED): passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent). Sponsor: Senator Henderson.
- Third Substitute Senate Bill 71 (Food truck amendments): passed (28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent). Sponsor: Senator Henderson.
- Senate Bill 132 (beer alcohol-content change, 3.2% to 4.8% for off-site sales): passed (27 yeas, 2 nays, 0 absent). Sponsor: Senator Stevenson. "It moves the alcohol content in beer ... from 3.2 to 4.8," Stevenson said; Senator Kitchen spoke in support but noted concerns for small breweries and asked for a longer implementation runway.
- Senate Bill 133 (oppressive conduct in closely held corporations): passed (25 yeas, 1 nay, 3 absent). Sponsor: Senator Cullimore.
- Senate Joint Resolution 7 (Utah Constitution terminology cleanup): passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Henderson.
- Senate Bill 138 (Utah Apprenticeship Act): passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Anderegg.
- Senate Bill 140 (real estate cleanup): passed (28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent). Sponsor: Senator Cullimore.
- Senate Bill 125 (vehicle registration records access): passed (29 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent). Sponsor: Senator Wyler; bill closes a loophole allowing a single private parking company direct access to scanned license-plate records.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 139 (motor-assisted transportation): passed (29 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent). Sponsor: Senator Cullimore.
- Senate Bill 134 (campus safety amendments): passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Iwamoto.
- Senate Bill 145 (legal notice revisions, with Amendment 2): passed (23 yeas, 5 nays, 1 absent). Sponsor: Senator McKay.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 129 (Public Safety and Firefighter Tier 2 Retirement Enhancements): passed (27 yeas, 2 nays, 0 absent). Sponsor: Senator Harper. (See separate article for policy debate and fiscal detail.)
- Senate Bill 127 (business-incentives technical corrections): passed (26 yeas, 1 nay, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Anderegg.
- Senate Bill 67 (reauthorization of Administrative Rules Review Committee): passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Andrigg.
- Senate Bill 137 (Single User Data Correlation Act — single sign-on planning): passed (27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent). Sponsor: Senator Andrigg.
- Senate Bill 60 (automatic local district withdrawal): substituted and circled for later action to allow stakeholders time to review the first substitute. Sponsor: Senator Fillmore.
- Second Substitute Senate Bill 151 (initiative-procedure amendments): passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent). Sponsor: Senator Henderson.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 95 (autism insurance amendments): passed (25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent). Sponsor: Senator Bramble.
- Senate Bill 59 (Child Welfare Worker Protection): passed (22 yeas, 3 nays, 4 absent). Sponsor: Senator Vickers.
- Senate Bill 143 (public education vision screening oversight): passed (26 yeas, 0 nays, 3 absent). Sponsor: Senator Escamilla.
Other procedural items included committee reports accepted, multiple bills read for first or second time and referred to rules, and a motion to read SJR9 for a third time (16 yeas, 12 nays, 1 absent) to advance debate on an Article V/convention-of-states resolution.
The Senate recessed for caucus lunches and a 2:00 p.m. afternoon session.
