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Senate roundup: dozens of bills advanced on Day 37, including child‑welfare, public‑education and privacy measures
Summary
On Day 37 the Utah Senate moved a broad set of House and Senate measures through the floor, approving bills on building codes, health, corrections reporting, education, privacy, and more. Several bills passed unanimously; a handful required recorded roll‑call tallies.
The Utah State Senate on Day 37 of the session processed a long floor calendar and passed a wide range of measures on public policy, procedural clarifications and ceremonial business.
Highlights included concurrence on building code and controlled‑substance database access bills, several House bills returned for the Speaker’s signature, and policy changes ranging from mental‑health outpatient options to a prohibition on public distribution of jail mug shots until conviction.
Notable recorded outcomes in the floor transcript (as announced by the clerk) included:
- House Bill 276 (Notary public amendments): recorded as receiving 21 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 9 absent; passed and returned to the House.
- First substitute House Bill 137 (intrastate commercial vehicle amendments): recorded as receiving 26 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 3 absent; passed.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 33 (Uniform Building Code Commission amendments): passed (clerk recorded 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent) and returns to the House for signature.
- Senate Bill 76 (controlled substance database access): recorded as receiving 24 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 5 absent; passed.
- First substitute House Bill 95 (Prison Rape Elimination Act compliance): recorded as receiving 27 yea votes, 0 nay votes; passed.
- First substitute House Bill 162 (peace‑officer training, 16 hours): recorded as receiving 26 yea votes, 2 nay votes, 1 absent; passed.
- First substitute House Bill 58 (riot amendments): close floor debate resulted in recorded passage of 16 yea, 10 nay, 3 absent and return to the House for further consideration.
- House Concurrent Resolution 16 (125th anniversary of the first Utah legislative session) was passed under suspension of the rules (28‑0‑1), and guests and descendants were recognized in the chamber.
A number of other measures were also considered and passed; the majority recorded unanimous or near‑unanimous support on the floor. Several items were circled for sponsors off the floor or referred to conference when House and Senate amendments required reconciliation.
The Senate recessed for lunch and set its next session at 2:00 p.m.
Complete, item‑level tallies and the formal journal should be consulted for the official record; the roll‑call counts above are drawn from the floor transcript as read aloud by the presiding officer and the clerk.
