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House passes Senate Bill 4001 to restore justice court jurisdiction; sponsor says measure corrects prior omission
Summary
The Utah House approved Senate Bill 4001, a bill the sponsor described as restoring a jurisdictional provision omitted from last session’s amendments; the chamber recorded a brief vote-count correction before finalizing the passage.
The Utah House on the floor approved Senate Bill 4001, "Justice Court Jurisdiction," moving the measure forward after the House sponsor said the bill corrects an omission from last year’s jurisdiction amendments and makes the change retroactive.
Representative Loubet, identified by the reading clerk as the House sponsor, said the bill "is pretty straightforward." He told members that during the prior general session a section granting courts jurisdiction over misdemeanors and certain offenses involving minors was omitted and that SB 4001 "is just to make that correction... and then at the same time, make it retroactive so that there's no lapse in coverage." The explanation was offered before members voted without extended debate.
The chamber first placed the bill on the House third-reading calendar after Representative Brammer moved to lift it from the Rules Committee and read it a second time; that procedural motion was approved. During final passage, the presiding officer initially announced 71 yes votes, then told the chamber he "pushed the wrong button to lock the vote," re-closed voting and announced the corrected tally of 72 yes, 0 no. The speaker said SB 4001 "passes this body" and would be signed and sent to the Senate for the president's signature.
Aside from the bill, members approved short procedural timing motions, including a brief five-minute saunter requested by Representative Moss and carried by voice vote. No amendments or substantive floor debate on SB 4001 were recorded in the transcript.
The bill, as described on the floor, aims to restore and retroactively apply a jurisdictional provision from earlier legislation; the transcript identifies the prior measure as SB 180. Specific statutory text, effective dates, or language of the insertion were not read into the record in the provided transcript excerpt.
