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Votes at a glance: Key Senate floor actions, Feb. 14, 2025

February 14, 2025 | 2025 Utah Legislature, Utah Legislature, Utah Legislative Branch, Utah


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Votes at a glance: Key Senate floor actions, Feb. 14, 2025
The Senate recorded the following formal actions and roll‑call outcomes during floor business on Feb. 14. The list includes motions reported in the transcript and the clerk's readouts as announced on the Senate floor.

- Senate Bill 68 (Child welfare workers protections): Motion to concur (moved by Senator Vickers). Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for the Speaker's signature.

- Second Substitute Senate Bill 171 (Indigent defense amendments, pilot program): Motion to pass (mover recorded on floor). Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: Passed and sent to the House.

- Senate Bill 191 (Protective order amendments): Motion to pass (mover recorded on floor). Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 2 nays, 4 absent. Outcome: Passed and will be sent to the House.

- Second Substitute Senate Bill 206 (Estate planning amendments): Motion to substitute and pass (sponsor explained technical edits). Final announced vote on second substitute: 22 yeas, 0 nays, 7 absent. Outcome: Passed and will be sent to the House.

- House Bill 26 (Road jurisdiction amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 24 yeas, 0 nays, 5 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for the Speaker's signature.

- Third Substitute House Bill 44 (Private airport notice amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 21 yeas, 1 nay, 7 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for further consideration.

- First Substitute House Bill 25 (Retirement amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House.

- House Bill 55 (County office amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 24 yeas, 0 nays, 5 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for the Speaker's signature.

- House Bill 64 (Public official bonding amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 21 yeas, 0 nays, 8 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for the Speaker's signature.

- House Bill 108 (Fraudulent deed amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 21 yeas, 0 nays, 8 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House.

- House Bill 200 (Outdoor recreation amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House.

- First Substitute House Bill 144 (School district contracting oversight): Floor vote result announced as: 12 yeas, 9 nays, 8 absent; outcome recorded as failed on the floor (transcript: "fails, and will be returned to rules / returned to the House for filing").

- First Substitute House Bill 41 (State water policy amendments): Motion to pass. Final announced vote: 23 yeas, 0 nays, 6 absent. Outcome: Passed and returned to the House for the Speaker's signature.

- Multiple other bills were read a first time, referred to committees, or had standing committee reports adopted and placed on calendars as read; those committee recommendations were adopted by voice votes and then entered on the second or consent calendars as indicated in the transcript.

Notes on the roll calls: The items above reproduce the clerk and presiding officer announcements in the transcript. Where the clerk announced a specific tally on the floor, that tally is reproduced verbatim. If the transcript uses shorthand or contains a brief verbal correction by the chair, the transcript wording is reflected in the relevant article's provenance instead of being rewritten.

Ending: The Senate adjourned until Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m., according to the final floor motion.

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