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Senate moves a broad slate of bills including driver-license, juvenile education and health initiatives; multiple fiscal bills circled
Summary
The Utah Senate voted through a long slate of bills and resolutions, approving measures on driver-license suspension revisions, county jail reimbursements, campus safety, property-tax appeals, youth suicide prevention, CHIP outreach, fertility-treatment Medicaid coverage, and numerous other fiscal- and policy-oriented bills; several items were circled for fiscal-note follow-up.
The Utah Senate used suspension of rules to advance and pass a broad group of bills spanning criminal justice, public health, education and administrative rules.
Notable floor outcomes included unanimous or overwhelming passage of several bills: S.B. 180 (driver-license suspension revisions) passed 29–0; S.B. 246 (Child and Family Services investigative amendments) passed 27–0; S.B. 163 (campus safety amendments, third substitute) passed 22–6; S.B. 171 (pretrial detention revisions as a substituted task-force approach) passed 26–1; and a slate of House bills were approved on second/third reading, including H.B. 96 (emergency management amendments), H.B. 192 (fertility-treatment Medicaid amendments), and H.B. 262 (Children’s Health Insurance outreach). The floor also passed a joint resolution urging scrutiny of presidential executive orders and multiple rule- and committee-related resolutions.
Several fiscal-note and policy bills were circled for follow-up, and a series of additional bills were set to be handled in the next calendar period. The Senate adjourned after completing the night's docket and indicated many fiscal-note items will be revisited when their fiscal analyses are finalized.
A concise list of recorded floor outcomes (not exhaustive): - S.B. 164 — Passed (second substitute) — Affordable housing amendments — recorded passage, sent to House. - S.B. 243 — Passed (second substitute) — Political subdivision/infrastructure amendments — recorded passage 23–5–1 (yea–nay–absent). - S.B. 207 — Passed (second substitute) — Consumer protection/price-gouging protections — recorded passage 26–3. - S.B. 180 — Passed 29–0 (driver-license suspension revisions). - S.B. 163 — Passed 22–6 (campus safety amendments, third substitute). - Multiple House bills (H.B. 96, H.B. 192, H.B. 262, H.B. 279, H.B. 300, etc.) were passed or circled and returned to the House for further consideration.
The Senate adjourned to reconvene the following morning to continue work on circled fiscal-note bills and remaining third-reading items.
