Votes at a glance: key bills moved on the Utah Senate floor

Below are selected actions taken during the Senate floor session, compiled from roll-call and floor announcements recorded by the clerk.

- HCR 18 (Condemn and censure state school board member Natalie Klein): Passed (29 yea, 0 nay, 0 absent). Sponsor: Senator Milner.

- Substitute Senate Bill 158 (Youth Service Organizations) as amended: Passed (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent). Sponsor: Senator Grover. Amendment 2 narrowed language and focused the bill on specified abuse and offender-database checks for volunteers in qualifying organizations.

- House Bill 2 49 (Legal personhood amendments): Passed (19 yea, 6 nay, 4 absent). Sponsor explanation: prohibits government recognition of certain nonhuman personhood categories.

- House Bill 3 84 (Utah Geological Survey data submissions): Passed (26 yea, 0 nay, 3 absent). Sponsor: Senator Ibsen.

- House Bill 3 83 (Voter registration/motor-vehicle notification changes): Passed (28 yea, 0 nay, 1 absent).

- Second substitute House Bill 191 (energy reliability procedures): Advanced to third reading (recorded 20 yea, 3 nay, 6 absent at one announcement); sponsors argued it protects electricity reliability.

- First substitute House Bill 29 (sensitive material review): Senate debated a substitute; roll-call votes and multiple floor statements were recorded during the substitute’s consideration.

This list is not exhaustive; the clerk read many communications and committee reports and the Senate placed multiple bills on the third-reading calendar or tabled them for later action.