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Votes at a glance: Key Senate actions on Feb. 15, 2022
Summary
On Feb. 15 the Utah Senate passed multiple bills across policy areas — including property-tax, housing, criminal justice data reform, film incentives, and several other measures — and referred them to the House as appropriate. This roundup lists outcomes and quick descriptions.
The Utah Senate acted on a broad list of bills on Feb. 15. Below are short summaries of the chamber’s formal actions and recorded outcomes.
- Third substitute Senate Bill 20 (Property tax amendments): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent). Makes technical corrections for telecom assessments and pro-rates a 14% property tax exemption for power producers exporting electricity out of state; sent to the House.
- First substitute House Bill 32 (Health care worker protection amendments): Passed (unanimous of senators present; recorded as 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent) extending enhanced penalties for assault on emergency and health-care workers across facilities; to be returned to the House for signatures.
- Senate Bill 161 (Child welfare appeals amendments): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent); sent to the House.
- Second substitute Senate Bill 140 (Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone amendments): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent); includes GOEO feasibility review and amended distance/zone provisions.
- First substitute Senate Bill 156 (Protection Against Extortion Amendments): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent); adds language criminalizing extortion using explicit conduct/content and adjusts penalties for juveniles.
- Third substitute Senate Bill 150 (Criminal Justice Data Management Task Force): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent); fixes fiscal note and adds language to improve system connectivity.
- Fifth substitute Senate Bill 53 (Driver speeding amendments): Passed (22 yay, 4 nay, 3 absent); moved to the House.
- Senate Bill 49 (Film Production Incentives amendments): Passed after floor debate (final recorded floor count reported as 20 yay, 7 nay, 2 absent); aims to target rebates to rural counties.
- First substitute Senate Bill 93 (Business tax amendments): Passed (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent); removes double taxation of business inputs.
- First substitute Senate Bill 146 (Division of Oil, Gas and Mining amendments): Passed (24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent); definitional changes shift oversight for certain resources.
- First substitute Senate Bill 148 (Construction registry amendments): Passed (23 yay, 0 nay, 6 absent); creates an outward-facing contractor registry.
This list is not exhaustive of every action taken on the floor that day but summarizes the major roll-call items and their immediate outcomes. Many of these measures will now be considered by the Utah House.
