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Votes at a glance: key measures the Utah Senate moved forward Feb. 25, 2021
Summary
The Senate advanced multiple bills to third reading on Feb. 25, 2021. Major floor votes included medical-record access, truancy moratorium, consumer-privacy, hemp regulation, water metering grants and several other measures; tallies are listed below.
SALT LAKE CITY — During its Feb. 25 session the Utah Senate recorded final floor actions on a broad slate of bills. Below are each measure named on the floor with the outcome and the roll-call tally as recorded in the transcript.
• S.B. 173 (Medical-records amendments, first substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 26 yea, 1 nay, 2 absent (SEG 378–380).
• S.B. 219 (Truancy enforcement moratorium): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent (SEG 529–531).
• S.B. 200 (Consumer Data Privacy Act): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 1103–1105).
• S.B. 203 (License plate modifications — Jazz plate charity designation): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 24 yea, 0 nay, 5 absent (SEG 1149–1151).
• S.B. 211 (Childcare background-check modifications, first substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 1329–1331).
• S.B. 39 (Hemp regulation amendments, second substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 24 yea, 3 nay, 2 absent (SEG 2140–2142).
• S.B. 40 (Storage tanks amendments, second substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 2433–2435).
• S.B. 199 (Water amendments, first substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 29 yea, 0 nay, 0 absent (SEG 2665–2667).
• S.C.R. 6 (Concurrent resolution supporting uranium mill tailings removal near the Colorado River in Moab): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 29 yea, 0 nay, 0 absent (SEG 2752–2754).
• S.B. 171 (Pretrial detention revisions, second substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 16 yea, 11 nay, 2 absent (SEG 3080–3082).
• S.B. 215 (*** offender registry amendments): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 1 nay, 0 absent (SEG 3284–3286).
• S.B. 220 (Court fee amendments): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent (SEG 3344–3346).
• S.B. 222 (Public-official and state-capital protection amendments, first substitute): advanced to third reading; roll-call recorded 28 yea, 0 nay (SEG 3500–3502).
Notes and context: several bills were discussed at greater length (for example S.B. 205 and S.B. 171). The tally figures above are taken from the Senate floor transcript. For bills that passed with unanimous or near-unanimous support sponsors emphasized technical fixes, targeted programs or administrative clarifications; for more contentious bills floor debate and motions to reconsider occurred before final tallies.
Provenance: Each listed vote is recorded in the Senate transcript at the segment ranges cited above.
