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Senate advances a slate of bills to third reading, including e‑prescribing, school‑bus and water policy changes
Summary
The Utah Senate advanced numerous House and Senate bills to third reading with recorded roll-call votes, including measures on e‑prescribing controlled substances (HB 177), school bus inspection timing (HB 143), water-policy amendments (HB 41, as amended), and several tax, audit and education items; the floor scheduled a full third-reading calendar for the next day.
The Senate spent its afternoon considering a broad second‑reading calendar and advanced many measures to the third‑reading calendar.
Notable actions and outcomes included: - House Bill 148 (recognition of classified school employees) received a roll-call tally of 24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent and will be read a third time. - House Concurrent Resolution 3 (encouraging local consideration of later high-school start times) passed 23–1 with 5 absent. - House Concurrent Resolution 5 (Education Support Professionals Day) passed 23–0 with 6 absent. - House Bill 177 (e‑prescribing controlled-substances amendments) was presented by Sen. Vickers, including an implementation date and specific exceptions for long‑term care, VA providers and emergency situations; the bill advanced with 23–0 and 6 absent. - House Bill 110 (inmate account disclosure) was advanced to the third-reading calendar (24–0 with 5 absent) after sponsor remarks on disclosure of residual funds in inmate accounts. - Several other bills were circled, substituted, or advanced after committee reports (examples: SB 75 legislative audit amendments moved to third reading; SB 114 data-center tax exemption clarifications was read a third time).
Floor leaders said the Senate has a full third‑reading calendar for the next day but only two hours of floor time; members were urged to be efficient. Senator Vickers also announced that Senator Okerlund had been hospitalized and asked colleagues to keep him in their thoughts. The Senate adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow.
