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Senate floor roundup: transit-resolution reconsidered; multiple substituted bills pass
Summary
The Utah Senate revisited a failed transit-operator safety resolution and approved it on reconsideration, adopted a string of substituted bills including petition and records-management amendments, and approved changes to school-policy and criminal-investigation rules; several roll-call tallies are recorded below.
The Senate spent the day considering many substituted bills and managing floor calendar motions to circle or uncircle items. Several bills were adopted under suspension of the rules and returned to the House for signature, and one previously-failed resolution was reconsidered and passed.
Transit-operator awareness resolution: Senator Reby presented House Joint Resolution 26, citing an apparent increase in assaults against transit operators and citing two recent incidents on the floor. On first consideration the resolution failed (10 yea, 14 nay, 5 absent) and was filed; members later moved to suspend rules and…
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