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Utah Senate — March 4 floor highlights: dozens of bills advanced; SSB122 tabled pending fiscal note
Summary
The Senate passed multiple bills on March 4, 2020 — including medical-billing reforms (SB155), expanded professional-licensing pathways (SB201), tightened background-check rules for school employees (SB195) and consumer alcohol purchasing changes (SB103) — set HB101 as time-certain and tabled SSB122 for a fiscal note; several bills were circled or uncircled for substitute work.
The Utah Senate spent its March 4 floor session advancing a broad slate of measures across health care, education, professional licensing and public safety, and scheduling several items for later consideration.
Among the bills that cleared the Senate and were transmitted to the House were third substitute SB155 (medical billing amendments), which the sponsor described as technical but aimed at reducing surprise emergency-room bills and which the floor recorded as passing with 28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent. Second substitute SB31 (safety inspections for sighted vehicles) passed the Senate in a…
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