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Utah Senate passes package of bills, tables domestic-violence data measure for fiscal review
Summary
On Feb. 28, 2023, the Utah State Senate approved a group of bills — including wildlife code recodification, driving-privilege fingerprinting, retirement-system clarifications and sex-offender registry cleanup — and unanimously approved a veterans-cemetery resolution; it tabled a domestic-violence data bill because of a fiscal note.
The Utah State Senate convened on Feb. 28, 2023, and approved a set of measures ranging from technical code recodification to operational changes for state programs, while tabling one domestic-violence data measure pending fiscal review.
Senators unanimously passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 7, asking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to consider federal funding after a private landowner donated 100 acres in Weber County for a Northern Utah veterans cemetery. "We've had a generous donation of a hundred acres by a private landowner in Weber County so that we could have a veterans and military cemetery," Senator Milner said while urging passage.
On the consent and second-reading calendars, the Senate approved House Bill 238 to extend access to public meeting facilities for political party events at institutions of higher education (26-0, 3 absent). The chamber also advanced a suite of third-reading bills: first substitute Senate Bill 132, which permits approved private fingerprint vendors to submit digital fingerprint scans and a photograph to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation for driving-privilege card…
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