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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers have passed 210 bills in the first 41 days of the 2020 session, but they still have plenty on their plate for the final four days, including piecing together a spending plan that may or may not include a tax cut and a final decision on whether to push a ban on abortions.
There are more than 230 bills and resolutions on the reading calendars of both the House and Senate awaiting action. On Monday, senators and representatives will convene 21 committees to consider scores of more bills before they take to the floor in the late afternoon to cast votes on topics ranging from prescription drug prices to distracted driving to water issues.
All their work must be wrapped up by midnight Thursday.
Some of the bills in committee Monday include:
• Members of the Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy and Technology Committee are hearing HB396, which would help set up an electric vehicle charging infrastructure with a suggested budget of $50 million.
• The Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee will consider SB240, which requires information to be provided on inmate deaths that occur in a county jail and would have the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice submit that data to an agency designated by the governor before Nov. 1 of each year. The information would be available to the public.
• Members of the House Transportation Committee will debate SB212, which creates the Latino Community Support special group license plate.
• The Senate Business and Labor Committee will debate SB249, the Consumer Privacy Act. It would allow a consumer to require a business to delete personal information that it has compiled and to direct a business that sells personal information to stop selling the consumer’s data.
2020 Utah Legislative Session
