House adopts committee reports, moves dozens of bills; consent calendar clears several measures

The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 4 adopted a slate of standing committee reports, assigned bills to appropriate committees and cleared multiple items on the consent calendar.

The Business, Labor and Commerce Committee reported favorably on bills such as HB130 (employment medical examination expense amendments) and recommended that HB171 be placed on the consent calendar, a report the House adopted after Representative Malloy moved adoption. The Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee recommended first substitute HB68 (housing and community development amendments), HB308 (homeless services amendments), HB320 (Office of Artificial Intelligence policy amendments) and HB329 (state employee maternity leave amendments), and the House adopted that report as well.

On the consent calendar, second substitute HB62 (road jurisdiction amendments) introduced by Representative Grisias passed 71-0. Representative Grisias described it as an annual technical cleanup for UDOT and related jurisdiction clarifications. HB272 (tourism taxes amendments) introduced by Representative Bolander also passed 71-0; Bolander said the bill requires the state auditor’s office and LFA to come to consensus on county reporting of transient room tax matters.

The House also moved a range of bills to committee calendars under a Rules Committee report; Representative Jordan Tesher moved the adoption of that report on the floor. The House recessed for afternoon caucus and set additional committee meetings as announced by the speaker.

What’s next: Many of the bills adopted on committee recommendation were assigned to the House third-reading calendar or to standing committees and will appear for further floor consideration or committee work in the coming days.