Votes at a glance: Utah Senate approves multiple concurrence bills, places many house bills on calendar

SALT LAKE CITY — During an extended floor session the Utah Senate moved and passed a broad set of concurrence and second‑reading items and placed many additional house bills at the bottom of the second‑reading calendar.

Key outcomes from recorded roll‑call votes:

- Second Substitute House Bill 467: Passed 22 yea, 6 nay, 1 absent (see separate coverage for debate and amendments).

- House Bill 416 (transient room tax — Grand County pilot sunset): Passed 21 yea, 6 nay, 2 absent. Sponsor Senator Vickers said the bill advances an early sunset (effective 07/01/2023) after an evaluation suggested earlier termination was appropriate.

- Fourth Substitute House Bill 449 (unlawful anti‑competitive activity / ESG provisions): The chamber substituted the bill (effective date moved to 07/01/2023) and passed the fourth substitute by roll call, 22 yea, 6 nay, 1 absent. Sponsor Senator Sandel described the measure as protecting Utah companies from decisions based on ESG scores.

- First Substitute House Bill 460 (settlement fund amendments — JUUL): Presented by Senator Plumb to deposit anticipated JUUL settlement funds (projected roughly $6 million over several years) into the state's electronic cigarette/nicotine restricted account; members voiced fiscal concerns about fund availability and statutory disbursements and the bill was circled for further discussion (later uncircled and passed under procedural actions noted in the record).

- Second Substitute House Bill 461 (airport firearm possession amendments): Passed (final tally reported in the transcript as 19 yea, 5 nay, with absences noted). Sponsor Senator Hinkins said the bill clarifies when seized airport firearms may be returned and limits certain forfeiture requests.

- House Bill 488 (Utah Lake Authority amendments): Passed 25 yea, 0 nay, 4 absent. Senator Mikell said the bill refines board membership to elected officials from cities within 1.5 miles of Utah Lake.

- Second Substitute House Bill 532 (building code revisions): Passed 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent. The bill adopts new building codes but excludes the energy code.

- Fourth Substitute House Bill 220 (emissions reduction amendments — conference committee): Adopted on a conference committee report and passed 27 yea, 0 nay, 2 absent. The substitute directs the Division of Air Quality to inventory halogen (bromine) point sources along the Wasatch Front, recommend best available control technology and publish findings for public input.

The Senate also concurred on numerous other substituted senate bills (including Second Substitute Senate Bill 103, Fourth Substitute Senate Bill 33, Fifth Substitute Senate Bill 153, First Substitute Senate Bill 257, among others) and returned them to the House for the Speaker's signature. Late in the session the Senate lifted a long list of house bills from rules to place them at the bottom of the second‑reading calendar.

What happens next: Bills returned to the House carry the Senate's floor action and will require acceptance of any Senate amendments or further House consideration. A number of items were circled for inter‑chamber coordination or fiscal review, and senators noted an upcoming appropriations 'bill of bills' deadline for fiscal analysts.