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Utah Senate advances broad package of bills on elections, education, health and property; several measures cleared for third reading
Summary
On Feb. 4, 2022 the Utah State Senate moved multiple measures forward — including election schedule changes, literacy and reading-assessment bills, and consumer- and health-related legislation — adopting substitutes, circling bills for further stakeholder review, and passing several measures by recorded votes.
The Utah State Senate on Feb. 4, 2022 adopted substitute language, circled bills for further review and passed a slate of bills covering elections, education, health and property law.
Senate leaders read communications from the House and approved a Rules Committee report assigning bills to standing committees before moving through the second-reading calendar. The body adopted a second substitute for Senate Bill 80 (real property recording amendments) to clarify what descriptions must be recorded and then read the bill for third consideration after a roll-call that the clerk recorded as 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent.
Senators also uncircled and substituted First Substitute Senate Bill 119, a measure revising pre-construction and construction lien language to reflect recent case law and clarify when a lien may attach to property; the clerk recorded the second substitute as receiving 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent.
Senate Bill 139 (prescription cost amendments)…
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