House passes multiple measures; floor sends several bills back to Senate and circles others
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Summary
On day 29 of the 2026 Utah general session the House adopted committee reports, passed a range of bills spanning resource management, health, water, housing and regulatory policy, and placed several substitutes off the floor for later consideration.
The Utah House of Representatives adopted a broad slate of measures during its morning floor session on Feb. 17, 2026, approving bills on resource management, health-care protections, water planning and local fees and advancing multiple other items to committee or to the Senate.
Major floor outcomes included the passage of SB44 (the 2026 statewide resource management plan update), which passed the House 67–0 and will be sent to the Senate for final signature. The House also approved first substitute SCR4 (an agreement to speed permitting cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management and the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining) on a hand vote, 51–10.
Health and patient protections advanced when SB50 (anesthesia dosage amendments) passed 66–1. The body approved SB89 (health-care services platforms technical corrections) 65–0. A range of House bills passed on third reading, including HB557 (reviser technical corrections) 55–11; HB319 (first substitute establishing a process for counties to accept digitally authenticated records) 67–1; HB328 (water-usage modifications for new nonfunctional turf in the Great Salt Lake Basin) 39–29; HB425 (local government transportation-utility fee guardrails) 68–0; HB436 (moderate-income housing infrastructure amendments) 65–0; HB374 (speech, language and hearing licensing changes) 69–0; HB387 (kratom regulatory framework, to go into effect only if a ban does not pass) 62–10; HB382 (assignment for benefit of creditors uniformization) 69–1; and HB416 (firefighter cancer benefit trust fund) 70–1.
Several bills were circled (sponsors off the floor) for additional work or fiscal notes, including SB132 (spaceport amendments), SB191 (tow-yard amendments; second substitute circled), HB84 (higher education dangerous-weapon amendments), HB190 (childcare business tax credit), and HB210 (tax-penalties substitute). The House also uncircled and then passed first substitute SB146 allowing reuse of certain industrial byproducts (e.g., slag) in public-works projects, subject to approval by the Division of Waste Management.
The House adopted the Rules Committee report assigning multiple bills to standing committees for further consideration. The body recessed until 2 p.m.
Votes and formal actions recorded on the floor were handled by voice or roll call as recorded in the official roster; each passed bill will be sent to the Senate or processed as noted by the Speaker’s office.