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Votes at a glance: key measures the Utah Senate approved Feb. 16
Summary
A summary of major roll‑call outcomes from the Feb. 16 Utah Senate floor session, including votes on SB149, SB153, SB128 (first substitute), House Bill 34 and other items the Senate read for third time and passed.
Here are key roll‑call outcomes from the Utah Senate floor session on Feb. 16, as recorded on the floor transcript.
- Senate Bill 149 (Massage Therapy Practice Act amendments): Passed by roll call; transcript records "having received 28 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 1 being absent." The bill exempts brain integration practitioners from massage licensing and will be transmitted to the House.
- Senate Bill 153 (Utah personal exemption / tax code restoration): Passed by roll call; transcript records "having received 28 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 1 being absent." Sponsor framed it as restoring the dependent exemption in state code following federal tax changes in 2017.
- First substitute Senate Bill 128 (Family planning services amendments): Passed by roll call after floor amendment and debate; transcript records "having received 18 yay votes, 9 nay votes, 2 being absent." The bill expands Medicaid family‑planning eligibility and will move to the House.
- House Bill 34 (Medical Respite Care Pilot): Passed by roll call; transcript records "having received 26 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 3 being absent." The bill requires the Department of Health to apply for a Medicaid waiver to provide respite care targeted at people experiencing homelessness.
- First substitute Senate Bill 84 (Indigent defense transcript procurement): Substituted and passed to be read for third time; transcript shows it will be read for a third time after receiving recorded support on the floor.
- Senate Bill 168 (Resort community quiet hours authority): Passed on third reading after debate; transcript records that the bill "having received 19 yay votes, 7 nay votes, 3 being absent" shall be read for a third time and will be advanced.
Each of the items above was moved, debated and recorded in the floor transcript. For bills that passed the Senate, the next procedural steps are enrollment (signature) and transmittal to the House (for House bills) or to the House for concurrence/consideration (for Senate bills), and any implementing administrative actions would follow according to statute and agency rules.
If you need the full roll‑call list by senator for any single bill, that can be extracted verbatim from the transcript on request.
