Utah Senate adopts rules and reading procedures, assigns bills to committees

The Utah Senate moved quickly through organizational business in its opening session, approving several procedural motions and assigning a long slate of bills to committee.

Senator Vickers moved that the Senate "express appreciation to Albert Kevin W. Pearson" for delivering the invocation and to have the invocation printed in the Senate journal; the motion passed unanimously. Later, Senator David Buxton moved that the Senate "adopt the same rules, joint rules, and interim rules adopted by the [prior] extraordinary session," and that motion also passed by voice vote.

Buxton additionally moved "that the Senate continue its practice of reading only the short title of bills and the resolutions as they are introduced or considered on the senate calendar" unless the majority directs otherwise; the Senate approved that practice by voice vote. After a rules committee meeting, Chair David Buxton delivered a report assigning many bills (SB 1–SB 104 and others) to standing committees; the Senate adopted the committee report by voice vote.

All procedural motions reported in this session were adopted without recorded roll‑call tallies in the transcript; votes were conducted by voice and described as carrying. The Senate recessed to reconvene at 2 p.m. in the House chamber for the Chief Justice’s address.