Democratic Bills That Have Passed This Session
***Democratic Bills that Have Passed The House & The Senate:
H.B. 011 – Licensensing of Elevator Contractors (Wiley, Larry)
This bill provides for the licensing and qualifications for licensure of elevator contractors and elevator mechanics by the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing.
H.B. 013 S1 – Drug Law Definitions (Beck, Trisha)
This bill modifies health care chapters in Title 58, Occupations and Professions, to provide consistency in specified definitions used in these chapters.
H.B. 023 – Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing (Beck, Trisha)
This bill modifies provisions related to an employer testing for drugs and alcohol. The bill clarifies current legislation and addresses grounds for employer action and liability.
H.B. 029 – School District Division Amendments (Black, Laura)
This bill modifies the procedures for creating a new school district. The bill also requires voter approval at the next general election.
H.B. 030 – Drug Law Amendments (Beck, Trisha)
This bill adds carisoprodol, which as the brand name of Soma, as a Schedule IV drug.
H.B. 62 – Penalties for Violent Crime in Presence of a Child (Fisher, Janice)
This bill provides a class B misdemeanor penalty for a person who, while in the presence of a child younger than 14, commits or attempts to commit criminal homicide against a third party, intentionally causes or attempts to cause serious bodily injury to a third party, or uses a dangerous weapon or other means or force likely to produce death or serious bodily injury against a third party.
H.B. 066 – Prosthetic Limb Health Insurance Parity (Litvack, David)
This bill amends the Insurance Code to require an insurer that provides a health benefit plan to offer coverage for prosthetic devices.
H.B. 069 – State Engineer’s Plugging of Wells Repair (Gowans, Jim)
This bill repeals a provision concerning the state engineer’s power to plug certain artesian wells.
H.B. 097 – Amendments Relating to Deceptive Practices Involving Consumers (Poulson, Marie)
This bill provides that certain false expressions in an advertisement are deceptive acts or practices for purposes of the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act and truth in advertising provisions.
H.B. 106 S1 – Expedited Background Checks for Human Services Providers (Seelig, Jennifer)
This bill amends provisions of the Utah Human Services Code to establish a pilot program for expedited background checks of certain human services providers.
H.B. 107 – Animal Shelter Amendments (Seelig, Jennifer)
This bill amends provisions of the Utah Code relating to an animal shelter providing an animal to be used for research or educational purposes.
H.B. 109 – Volunteer Government Workers Act Definitions (Biskupski, Jackie)
This bill modifies the Volunteer Government Workers Act by amending the definition of compensatory service worker.
H.B. 124 S2 – Campaign Funds Expenditure Restrictions (Cosgrove, Tim)
The bill amends provisions in the Campaign and Financial Reporting Requirements related to the personal use of campaign monies and provides for enforcement, investigation of complaints, and assessment of administrative penalties by the lieutenant governor. The bill defines “personal use expenditure,” and prohibits a candidate, a judge, or an officeholder from using campaign contributions for personal use expenditure. The bill also provides a list of authorized and prohibited uses of campaign funds.
H.B. 138 – Hazing Penalties (Moss, Carol)
This provides a penalty for a charge of hazing when an alcoholic product, drug, or other substance is involved.
H.B. 161 – Voter Registration Amendments (Chavez-Houck, Rebecca)
This bill authorizes the lieutenant governor to compare the statewide voter registration database with information submitted by a registered voter to a state agency to identify a change of name or address.
H.B. 181 – Condominium Association Common Expenses (Moss, Carol)
This bill includes rules adopted by the condominium association management committee among the documents that may authorize the management committee to terminate certain services of an owner who has failed to pay an assessment.
H.B. 192 – Methane Gas / Renewable Energy (Watkins, Christine)
This bill provides that electrical energy derived from methane gas from certain coal mine facilities is among the types of waste gasses considered as a renewable energy source.
H.B. 208 – Disposition of the Remains of a Deceased Military Service Member (Seelig, Jennifer)
This bill provides that a person designated by a service member while serving in a branch of the United States Armed Forces is a first priority person in determining the disposition of the remains of the military service member upon the service member’s death.
H.B. 209 – Sex Offender Regulation Amendments (Watkins, Christine)
This bill modifies the Code of Criminal Procedure regarding the annual fee paid by registered sex offenders.
H.B. 222 – Land Use Meeting Notice (Beck, Trisha)
This bill amends the notice requirements for a public hearing to adopt or modify a land use ordinance.
H.B. 232 – Medical Language Interpreter Amendments (Chavez-Houck, Rebecca)
This bill recodifies the Medical Language Interpreter Act and amends the act by providing for expiration and renewal of certification, denial of certification, and for disciplinary actions.
H.B. 246 – Retirement Benefits for Charter School Employees (Watkins, Christine)
This bill modifies the Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act by amending provisions relating to retirement benefits for charter school employees.
H.B. 277 – Overdose Reporting Amendments (Johnson, Christine)
This bill provides that a person younger than 21 years of age who is in violation of an alcohol possession or consumption law, and who in the same incident reports to law enforcement a person who is physically endangered by the consumption of alcohol, may be considered by the sentencing court for a mitigation of the sentence due to having reported the endangered person.
H.B. 287 S1– Legislator Salary Amendments (Litvack, David)
This bill maintains legislators’ daily pay at $117 through the 2011 calendar year for annual general sessions, veto-override sessions, special sessions, and authorized legislative meetings.
H.B. 332 – Utah Agricultural Code Amendments (Watkins, Christine)
This bill makes changes to Title 4, Utah Agricultural Code.
H.B. 340 – Sexual Assault Victim Protocols – (Biskupski, Jackie)
This bill amends Sexual Assault Victim Protocols within the Utah Health Code.
H.B. 398 – Sexually Oriented Business License Amendments (Seegmiller, Jay)
This bill enacts provisions relating to the licensing of a sexually oriented business or an individual working in a sexually oriented business.
H.B. 450 – Fishing License Amendments – Disabled Veterans (Cosgrove, Tim)
This bill allows the Division of Wildlife Resources to make rules under which a disabled veteran may receive a free or reduced price fishing license.
H.C.R. 003 – Concurrent Resolution on Italian-American Heritage Month (Watkins, Christine)
This concurrent resolution of the Legislature and the Governor designates October, 2010, as Italian-American Heritage Month.
H.J.R. 003 – Joint Resolution on Teacher Performance Pay (Poulson, Marie)
This joint resolution of the Legislature recommends that performance pay or differentiated pay plans for public school teachers be developed using certain guiding principles.
H.R. 4 – Resolution Urging Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Seelig, Jennifer)
This resolution of the House of Representatives requests that the United States Senate provide its advice and consent for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
H.J.R. 005 – Joint Resolution on Clean Air (Moss, Carol)
This joint resolution of the Legislature encourages the citizens of Utah to eliminate all unnecessary idling of motor vehicles.
H.J.R. 006 – Strangulation and Domestic Violence Joint Resolution (Seelig, Jennifer)
This joint resolution of the Legislature urges state and local law enforcement officers and prosecutors to investigate and prosecute as felonies assaults in which the defendant applied force to the neck or throat of the victim.
H.J.R. 13 – Recognition of Community Councils and the Association of Community Councils Together Joint Resolution (Duckworth, Sue)
This joint resolution of the Legislature recognizes the 25th Anniversary of the Community Councils of Unincorporated Salt Lake County and expresses thanks and support for their work as partners with Salt Lake County government to provide advice and input on behalf of its residents for the betterment of their communities.
HJR 30 S1 – War Veterans’ Memorial on Capitol Hill Joint Resolution (Chavez-Houck, Rebecca)
This joint resolution of the Legislature expresses support for efforts to create a monument at the Utah State Capitol Complex to honor war veterans whose suffering continued after their military service.
*** Democratic Bills Waiting to Pass The Senate This Session:
H.B. 082 – Protection of Children Riding in Motor Vehicles (Seegmiller, Jay)
This bill modifies the Motor Vehicles Code by enacting a restriction on smoking in a motor vehicle when a child is present.
H.B. 091 – Traffic Control Signs for Bicycles (Moss, Carol)
This bill modifies the traffic code by amending provisions related to operating a bicycle on the roadway.
H.B. 185 – Animal Euthanasia Standards (Seegmiller, Jay)
This bill requires that if an animal shelter must euthanize an animal, the animal shelter shall euthanize, with certain exceptions, the animal by lethal injection and sets requirements for euthanization in a carbon monoxide chamber.
H.B. 406 – State Fairpark Amendments (Gowans, Jim)
This bill amends Title 63A, Chapter 5, Part 3, Division of Facilities Construction and Management Leasing, regarding the leasing of the state fair park by the division to the Utah State Fair Corporation.
