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Utah Senate advances wide slate of bills on elections, transportation, schools and criminal justice
Summary
The Utah Senate returned from lunch, approved standing-committee recommendations, and advanced a large package of bills to third reading or passage, including measures on marriage solemnization, transportation electrification and planning, a state capital development fund, local land-use streamlining for housing, and a phased reduction in expungement processing times.
The Utah Senate reconvened after lunch and moved a broad set of measures through committee referral and third-reading steps on the second and third-reading calendars on Tuesday.
Clerks read a dense rules committee report assigning dozens of bills to standing committees covering business and labor, government operations, health and human services, judiciary, natural resources, revenue and transportation. Senators approved the report by voice vote and then heard numerous standing committee recommendations that placed bills on the consent calendar.
On the second- and third-reading calendars the chamber took up a long list of measures. Notable floor actions included:
- Fourth-substitute Senate Bill 153 (Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity amendments) was substituted on the floor and advanced for third reading after Sen. Winterton said the language codifies GOEO practices, adds a nonvoting member to the Unified Economic Opportunity Commission, clarifies eligibility for the industrial assistance…
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