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Utah Senate advances a slate of House bills in brisk floor session; key votes and tallies
Summary
The Utah Senate moved and passed a wide range of House bills in a short floor session, approving measures from child-protection schooling and county-record redaction to recycling and county auditor duties; the chamber also adopted a message resolution on federal action against Utah power.
The Utah State Senate spent the morning of floor business passing a bundle of House measures and adopting a message resolution on federal actions affecting state power generation.
Senators passed bills addressing privacy, local tax reporting, county-auditor duties, prison health-care retirement transfers, trailer registration thresholds and advanced manufacturing definitions for plastics recycling. Several measures were described by sponsors as technical or consensus fixes; others were framed as message bills signaling the Legislature's stance on federal policies.
Senator Vickers introduced a concurrent resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 9) expressing the state's position against federal action that would force shutdowns of in-state power plants; the resolution passed on a roll call of 21 yeas, 6 nays, 2 absent. "We the state and the governor will push back against that type of federal overreach,"…
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