2025 bills / H.B. 159
H.B. 159 Protection Order Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill defines key terms and creates a new law under which Utah would recognize domestic violence protection orders issued in Canada. It also adds a severability clause, so the rest of the law stays in effect if one part is struck down, and makes technical and conforming changes to existing law.
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Official description
- defines terms
- enacts the Uniform Recognition of Canadian Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act
- provides a severability clause
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 159 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 159 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: Consent Calendar Recommendation · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Consent Calendar Recommendation · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how