Votes at a glance: Utah Senate advances health, tax, court and education measures
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Summary
The Utah Senate on floor session advanced a range of bills — including HB55 (education tech privacy), H.B. 46 (taxpayer information sharing, later tabled for fiscal review) and S.B. 112 (homestead exemption/EITC change) — approving many measures by roll call and sending them to the House or placing them on the third‑reading calendar.
The Utah Senate completed a floor session that advanced multiple bills across health, tax, courts and education and took several procedural actions.
Among the formal actions, the Senate approved on the consent calendar House Bill 211 (real property recording amendments) by roll call, and adopted or advanced multiple third‑reading items: second substitute S.B. 112 (Utah Exemptions Act modifications) passed and will go to the House; first substitute S.B. 162 (online sales tax amendments) passed and will go to the House; first substitute H.B. 40 (Utah Construction Trades Licensing Act recodification) was read for a third time; and first substitute H.B. 79 (governmental immunity amendments) returned immunity for emergency response employees to pre‑Armenta practice and was read a third time.
Other votes and procedural outcomes included: a 24‑0 passage of H.B. 211 (Clerk reported 24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent); passage of second substitute S.B. 112 (Clerk reported 27 yay, 0 nay, 2 absent); first substitute S.B. 162 (reported 28 yay, 1 nay, 0 absent); first substitute H.B. 40 (reported 28 yay, 1 nay, 0 absent); and first substitute H.B. 79 (reported 28 yay, 0 nay, 1 absent). Several bills were circled (postponed) or substituted for fiscal or technical reasons during floor management.
A subset of bills was sent back to committees or tabled for fiscal review: third substitute H.B. 392 (district court/constitutional‑case panel) was read for a third time (Clerk reported 21 yay, 7 nay, 1 absent) and subsequently tabled on third while the fiscal note was finalized; second substitute H.B. 46 (taxpayer information sharing amendments) passed its third‑read vote but was later tabled on third for fiscal impact review.
The session also included presentations and recognition: the Senate adopted S.C.R. 6, a resolution raising awareness of pediatric autonomic disorders (POTS); and lawmakers honored Representative Carol Spackman Moss for 26 years of service. The Senate adjourned to reconvene Thursday, February 12 at 10 a.m.
Votes and outcomes reported on the floor are recorded in roll‑call tallies read by the Clerk and summarized above. For each bill listed here, motions, substitutions and official tallies were made on the floor during the session.