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Utah Senate advances broad slate of bills on day 25, including mental-health, trafficking and transportation measures
Summary
On day 25 of the 2019 Utah Legislature the Senate approved a large consent calendar and passed multiple substantive bills — including mental-health amendments, human-trafficking revisions and transportation governance language — and adopted a conference committee report before adjourning.
The Utah State Senate on its 25th day of session approved a broad package of bills, moving several from the floor to the House and adopting a conference committee report before adjourning for the weekend.
Senators voted to concur with technical changes to First Substitute Senate Bill 38, mental-health amendments, and later gave final passage to a mix of consent and debated items. Major consent-calendar measures that passed included House Bill 97 (Uniform Commercial Code amendments), House Bill 202 (off-premise beer retailer amendments) and First Substitute House Bill 104 (private counselors' amendments). The body also passed House Bill 108 to treat commercially exploited children as victims and to require law enforcement to provide supportive processes.
The Senate heard extended presentations on transportation governance and on accounts-receivable collection changes, adopted an amendment to the transportation measure and passed a suite of other bills affecting local government, education and licensing.
Votes at a glance: First Substitute Senate Bill 38 — passed (27-0, 2 absent); House Bill 97 — passed (24-0, 5 absent); House Bill 202 — passed (26-0, 3 absent); First Substitute House Bill 104 — passed (27-0, 2 absent); House Bill 108 — passed (27-0, 2 absent); First Substitute Senate Bill 72 (transportation) — advanced as amended and read for third time (26-0, 3 absent); First Substitute Senate Bill 120 (accounts receivable collection, substitute) — read for third time (25-0, 4 absent).
The Senate received a revenue update from leadership, which reported downward revisions from earlier consensus numbers but characterized the economy as still strong compared with recent years. After routine communications from the House and committee reports, the Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. Monday.
Many of the bills passed unanimously on recorded roll calls; where votes deviated or were recorded as 'nay' the clerk's roll was entered into the record.
