Votes at a glance: major bills the Utah Senate passed on Day 45

The Utah Senate spent Day 45 taking up and returning to the House a sequence of bills on a range of subjects. Below are the main items recorded on the floor, with vote outcomes as they were read into the record.

- Fourth substitute Senate Bill 134 (special education amendments): motion to concur and passage recorded; President announced the bill "having received 23 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 6 being absent" and it will be returned to the House (see floor discussion and roll call).

- Third substitute Senate Bill 45 (Department of Health and Human Services amendments): floor concurrence and roll-call passage recorded as "24 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 5 absent"; returned to the House.

- Senate Bill 166 (aviation amendments): passed on roll-call with "26 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 3 absent"; returned to the House.

- First substitute Senate Bill 194 (medical rationing amendments): passed; the clerk recorded "22 yay votes, 4 nay votes, 3 absent" and the bill will be returned to the House.

- Second substitute Senate Bill 195 (Medical Cannabis Access Amendments): passed with "25 yay votes, 1 nay vote, 3 absent"; returned to the House.

- Second substitute Senate Bill 218 (fund of funds modifications): passed with "27 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 2 absent"; returned to the House.

- Second substitute Senate Bill 221 (water-related sales and use tax amendments): passed with "28 yay votes, 0 nay votes, 1 absent"; returned to the House.

- First substitute Senate Bill 238 (homeless services modifications): passed with "25 yay votes, 1 nay vote, 3 absent"; returned to the House.

- House Bill 3 91 (autocycle amendments) — consent calendar item: the President directed a unanimous vote for the senators present; the clerk recorded an outcome that was entered as a unanimous vote and will be returned to the House.

- Second substitute House Bill 299 (juvenile justice changes): passed on suspension of rules (recorded as 25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent) and will be returned to the House.

- Third substitute House Bill 4 23 (Department of Agriculture and Food amendments): substituted and passed (24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent); returned to the House.

- House Bill 3 73 (Convention and Tourism Business Assessment Area Act): after debate and amendment (threshold increased from 50% to 60%), passed on roll-call and will return to the House (clerk recorded the vote and absences).

- Fifth substitute House Bill 3 74 (sensitive materials in schools): after extended debate the Senate passed the substitute under suspension of the rules; the clerk recorded several nays and absentees; the bill will be returned to the House.

- Additional bills and joint resolutions discussed and passed on the floor include property-tax exemptions, recycling transparency amendments, water-wise landscaping, education reporting amendments, and procedural resolutions; specific tallies are included in the transcript record and some items were circled for later consideration.

Taken together, the votes show the Senate moving a broad legislative package back to the House, with several items adopted under suspension of the rules on the chamber's final day. The Senate recessed until 2 p.m. after completing the work listed above.

Note: Tallies above are taken from the floor transcript as read into the record. Where the clerk read both an initial and a corrected tally, the transcript passage that finalized the count was used.