SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House of Representatives used its morning floor time on Feb. 6 to adopt multiple committee reports, concur with Senate amendments on a procurement bill and advance a set of bills to third-reading calendars.

Committee reports adopted included recommendations from the Judiciary Committee (Nelson Abbott, chair), Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee (Ryan Wilcox, chair), Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee (Carl Albrecht, chair) and Transportation Committee. The floor adopted each committee report by voice vote with no recorded roll-call opposition for those reports that were called.

The House concurred with Senate amendments to Substitute House Bill 12 (Division of Purchasing and General Services amendments). The reading clerk announced the bill was concurred and the clerk later recorded that the bill had passed the House and would be sent to the Senate.

The House also advanced several bills to the bottom of the third-reading calendars as the committees recommended, including bills reported out from Judiciary and Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice committees. Representative Strong moved adoption of a committee report shifting HB 344 (school fees) to a time certain; the House approved a motion to place HB 344 on the time-certain calendar for 2:30 p.m. the same day.

The House handled procedural motions on circling and uncircling House Bill 297 (expungement cleanup). After a brief sequence of reconsideration motions and substitution, the first substitute to HB 297 passed and the clerk announced a final tally consistent with floor procedure.

Other morning actions included schedulings, recognitions, and introductions of a number of new bills read for the first time and referred to committee. The Rules Committee report listed committee assignments for newly introduced measures.

Votes at a glance:
- Substitute House Bill 12 (Division of Purchasing and General Services amendments): concurrence with Senate amendments announced on the floor; clerk announced passage and transmittal to the Senate (vote recorded in transcript as 78 yea votes, 0 nay votes as announced by the clerk).
- First substitute House Bill 297 (Expungement amendments): clerk announced passage and transmittal to the Senate (vote recorded in transcript as 73 yea votes, 0 nay votes as announced by the clerk).
- House scheduling: HB 344 (school fees) placed on the time-certain calendar for 2:30 p.m. the same day.

The Rules Committee report was adopted and the Speaker signed committee assignments listed in the committee report.