Legislators / Jen Plumb
Jen Plumb
Democrat · Senate District 9 · Minority Assistant Whip
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- Email: jplumb@le.utah.gov
- Phone: 801-870-0228
- Office: 350 State St., #320, Salt Lake City, UT, 84114
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Jen Plumb serves on:
- Executive Appropriations Committee
- General Government Appropriations Subcommittee
- Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee
- Government Operations Interim Committee
- Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee
- Retirement and Independent Entities Interim Committee
- Federal Funds Legislative Oversight Committee - Rural Health Transformation Grant
- Senate Government Operations Confirmation Committee
- Senate Health and Human Services Confirmation Committee
- Legislative Management Committee
- Native American Legislative Liaison Committee
- Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Confirmation Committee
- Senate Political Subdivisions Confirmation Committee
- Senate Retirement and Independent Entities Confirmation Committee
- Senate Revenue and Taxation Confirmation Committee
- Legislative Water Development Commission
- Senate Ethics Committee
- Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- Senate Health and Human Services Committee
What they've said
372 remarks on 92 billsH.B. 495 Capital Felony Case Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Sen. Plumb says she is opposed to the death penalty and is concerned about executing an innocent person, so she cannot support speeding up the process.
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So much weight around this issue of, of capital punishment and the death penalty. And I feel like part of the conversation around this for me is my fundamental concern that we would ever execute an innocent person. And I don't have enough trust or faith in what I have seen with, um, capital punishment cases and cases that have ultimately been overturned or someone has been found to not have been guilty. So, you know, I I am fundamentally opposed to the death penalty and to the state taking life, although I certainly hear of cases where I even within my own self understand where it comes from. I think the hard part is I don't think it is …
S.B. 149 Licensing Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Explains a change that was made in committee in the House Health and Human Services committee.
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Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. This was a change we made in committee in house HHS While I
H.B. 259 Parental Access to Children's Medical Records Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Raises concern that the bill may conflict with federal law where health systems may block parent access to protect a child from abuse, and asks whether this was addressed.
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Thank you, Mr. President. I, I have some concerns that we may be putting ourselves in, um, kind of contradiction with federal law on some pieces of this. I know, for example, if there's a case where, uh, there's a child that's in a situation where there's concern about abuse, either from one or both parents, that the health system does have the ability, and some may even say the obligation to block that from being accessed by the parent for the child's safety. Has there been any dialogue about this being incongruent with the federal expectations and regulations that we have?
H.B. 508 State Facilities Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Plumb compared the bill's approach to self-insurance in a health system and asked if it is a similar setup.
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Uh, thank you Mr. President Prote. As I, as I'm listening to this back and forth, I'm thinking a little bit about, um, my other day slash night job where we are in a medical space and the decision has been made to self-insure. So like in the University of Utah Health System, there's a, a self-insurance process by which we do take on some, the, the system takes on some risk, but then also pays out. Am I kind of hearing the same sort of a, a setup in what you're envisioning?
H.B. 270 Healthcare Worker Post-Employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Supports the bill, saying it will help patients whose therapists left without notifying them of where they went.
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Mr. President Pro? Thank you Mr. President Pro tem. I rise in support of this bill and also in the work that went into it and the conversations that were making it very clear what the key, uh, pieces were. And I think as the good senator referenced the fact that people's therapists were having to essentially abandon them and not let them know where they went because of misinterpretations. This is really going to do good for folks and I appreciate it coming forward.
H.B. 410 Water Leasing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Announces that Salt Lake City PD is holding its 175th anniversary event in the Capitol boardroom from 1 to 3 and invites senators to attend.
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Quick quick announcement. I could have come to your microphone with it. Um, the Salt Lake City PD is hosting their hundred and 75th anniversary down in the Capitol boardroom between one and three. They have some cool kind of historic items and if anyone's able to stop by, I am sure they would love it. So thank you.
H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Said the bill has been a difficult process and that the remaining change seems to add confusion to policy.
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Uh, uh, I do not Envy do we need my friend as well? Uh, no, I Do not envy you. I mean, I can only imagine this Bill has, has done a lot of things this session and has been a lot of things. And I think perhaps the, the back and forth that we're all experiencing here is part of the, this bill ain't much left except the final piece of what feels like wasn't very kind policy all along. And so I think maybe as we get more answers, a as I'm even just listening to folks, I'm like, wow, that maybe the writing's on the wall that as pieces got stripped out, that maybe that's what's left …
H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Asked whether the bill keeps gender in some places and uses sex in others, and whether that was discussed.
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I, I think one of the clarifying things that we were stumbling around with was, it seems very much to me and maybe to some of my other committee members that, um, this actually introduces a decent amount of disconnect where it, not to unify the policy, but there are some spaces where it would stay as gender and there others where it would say as sex. And I wondered if, as you would all had constructed this, if there had been dialogues about what kind of that looked like.
H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Expressed concern about the bill's past harms and made a motion to hold the bill.
▶ Watch at 1:35:59Read what they said
I don't know if there's any other questions, but I think kind of with what I alluded to before, I, one of the things that has been most distasteful to me trying to nego navigate this policy was the cruelty that, that people felt personally directed at them in the beginning. And again, here you are sitting in it. Yeah. Um, and I think that the pieces that in particular made it seem that some were less worthy of, of working in certain spaces or doing certain jobs, um, was frankly heart wrenching and completely inappropriate and did put in some people's minds that oth other sons amongst us are not as worthy as others. And so, while I'm grateful …
H.B. 599 Social Services Funding Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Plumb moved to favorably recommend H.B. 599 third substitute to the full Senate.
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With the tyrannosaurus arm. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Uh, chair. I would love to make a motion if we could, to favorably recommend out house bill. Is it 5 99 sub Three Three, uh, favorably to the full body of the Senate.
H.B. 381 Electric Mobility Device Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Thanks the sponsors, citing increasing youth injuries from powerful e-bikes that she has seen in emergency departments.
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Thank you, Mr. President. I, I just wanted to, um, offer thanks to the sponsors of this bill, given the increasing number of injuries that I have seen in the emergency department and actually across emergency departments across this state related to injuries in our youth on these sometimes really powerful devices. So I think thought that is going into this is appreciated and, and will be protective of our kids. So thank you for that.
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presents S.B. 142 as a cleanup bill clarifying that private probation supervision and treatment must be separate, and that neither an individual nor a human services program may provide both.
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Oh, thanks. Uh, committee members for having us here today. Senate Bill 1 42 is actually a very simple little, uh, cleanup clarification piece. Um, a bill that, uh, set, uh, Representative Loubet and I had run two years ago on, uh, clarifying that supervision or private probation and supervision and treatment should be separate spaces. Uh, meaning the conflict of interest if you're providing those in the same space is pretty significant. If the person who is running your probation and determines when you've completed treatment is also the person getting paid to do your treatment, you have a little bit of a problem there. So, the bill was run two years ago, and it turns out there was …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presented SB 224, which would let a homeless youth or child liaison obtain vital records on behalf of students so they can access McKinney-Vento funding and services.
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Much appreciation. Um, with thanks to my colleague as well. This is very, hopefully quick. Um, and we'll speed him right into the chair. Um, this bill is a product Senate Bill 2 24 is a product of an NCSL, um, fellowship on, uh, homelessness and homeless youth that I participated with folks from around the country and learned a whole lot from educators and, and people in all sorts of different related spaces. But one of the questions that they had asked us to ask our people when we come back is, are your educators and your administrators able to get all the documentation, et cetera, that they need to be able to get their McKinney Bento funds? Which …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presented the bill, explaining that vitamin K prevents newborn bleeding, that refusals and related brain hemorrhages are rising, and that the bill as amended requires health care providers to educate parents about vitamin K with an opt-out process.
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All right. Um, thank you all again. As we get near to the end for having me here. Um, this bill is one that I, I am really interested in the conversations as much as I am, uh, in the policy on it because I think that, um, there have been some trends that we've noticed in, in pediatric medicine in particular and in neonatal and newborn medicine that kind of give pause and have made me wonder a bit about what could we do better to help families in this, both exciting, exhausting, and wonderful, but sometimes terrifying time to have optimal information to make the choices that they see best for their families. And this bill deals with …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explained the bill had been narrowed to an education requirement, with the opt-out language kept so families would not have to fight for an opt-out, and offered to remove it.
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No, No, No. It, it, when it started, initially the bill was for administration and then with more conversations with folks, so it was administration and then also a clear opt-out process. And then with more conversations with people didn't have the right temperature check for, for decent chunks of the, of the state. So, so it is just an education requirement. And I considered pulling out the optout part, but people told me that having an optout, there felt actually, um, like it wasn't an attempt to force something that it was clear that this would just be established, that there wouldn't have to be a fight for an optout, that it would just be established. I can absolutely …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Said the opt-out was written for the injection but could apply to the education piece.
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No, opting Well, that's a good point. The way I had it written was opting out of the vaccine, I suppose opting out of education there. It could be an opt out of an education piece if that's, I hadn't even thought of that possibility, but that's, that is a
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Shared the story of a grieving father who did not understand the risks, and said her goal is giving families information for an educated choice.
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Well, I thank You. Okay. If, if I could respond a little, I think that something I didn't include was one of the stories from a father of the, one of the babies that I did take care of. And he was beside himself and so upset that he didn't understand that a bleed into the brain, which is irreversible, that's not a treatable thing. Hopefully with time, that plasticity of, of babies' brains, they, they do amazing things. But he was so sad and he was, he, he had such grief over the fact that in the chaos of that birth time, he didn't understand fully was at least what he was passing on to me. And so I …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Said she included midwives so families choosing births outside hospitals would also get information, and noted midwives had suggested language changes.
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Yeah, and I, and I did kind of, there's some gymnastics around it, right? Because there are people that everybody chooses to have delivery of their infant in their, in their particular way. Some folks that's a home birth, some folks that's a hospital birth, some folks that's a tub in the living room. And there's all sorts of versions of what that looks like. And so I wanted to be, um, mindful of the fact that not all deliveries and healthcare happening within a hospital, that I also wanted the folks that choose a, like a midwife path and perhaps outside of a hospital setting, would also have that opportunity to have that informed, uh, educated parent choice piece. …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Noted DHHS informational pamphlets could be provided and hoped health systems would make resources available to midwives.
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And, and I hear that. I think too, perhaps part of the, again, me and my assuming good intent and collaborations and, and bridge buildings, I know DHHS now has a all sorts of, uh, there's some folks here that might be able to speak to it, but have all sorts of informational pamphlets that they do produce that can be set in the spaces. Um, which I, I know then probably also, um, to represent Shire's concern. Well, what is in those, what's, you know, who's putting, who's deciding that sort of a thing in there. Um, and this is one of the challenges about healthcare, I think in all times, but particularly in this time, is how do …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Said preliminary data suggest hemorrhages have risen several-fold, deferred risk-stratification to neonatologists, and noted hospitals now use preservative-free vitamin K.
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That's a great question that I would probably defer a little more to the, or like neonatology types who we may have with us here, since that's their sole world, is around the brand new arrivals of folks. I think that when something is easily preventable and also happens infrequently enough that it's a larger scale, um, I, I would think it'd be pretty hard to predict this person has a five x risk, this person has a two x risk, I would think. But, but it is an interesting question to look into is especially if there is, you know, continued adversity to this, um, and folks having discomfort with it, um, especially if then to try to set …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Said removing the midwife section would be reasonable.
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I, I think that that's, you know, I hadn't thought in depth about that, and I think that's absolutely reasonable. Okay. Thank you. Reasonable.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Said the substitute addresses the members' concerns and improves the policy.
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I I was just actually over here doing my read through the thing and, and I think that, um, it addresses the concerns that, that both the good representatives brought up about talking about risks and benefit as well as how do you police something that's unpleasable. Um, and so I, I find that to be favorable and it actually improves the policy.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Read the amendment requiring explanation of vitamin K risks and benefits and allowing parents to decline without a form, and supported it.
▶ Watch at 1:27:49Read what they said
Between my readers and my, whichever ones. Would you all like me to read a to you so I know what it says? Provide a full and clear explanation of the risks and benefits of Vitamin K administration and the risks of possible adverse outcomes for a newborn. That does not receive vitamin K. And then it's just the next is a parent may decline to consent to the administration of vitamin K, but no form. So I absolutely, and thanks to the drafters who are doing quick typing to get there.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Thanked members for the discussion and changes, saying everyone shares the goal of helping people be healthy.
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No, as, as I, um, alluded to a little bit when I came in, I do think the conversations are honestly some of the best part of what we do up here is that we learn from each other's perspectives and have thoughts that we didn't have. And I, I am really grateful for the, the thoughts that were brought into this as well as the changes that were made because I, I do think we all have the same goal and that is helping folks live the way they wanna live and, and helping them be healthy and doing so. So,
S.B. 317 Opioid Terminology Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 42) · Mar 3, 2026
Presents S.B. 317 as a cleanup bill that changes code terminology from 'opiate' to 'opioid' and updates related defined terms and the 'opioid antagonist' phrase.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. This bill is a bit of a cleanup bill Over the last decade or so, as the opioid crisis has evolved and our conversations around it have evolved as well, you may have noticed things like we don't say opiate as much as we say opioid these days. And technically I could ping our pharmacist colleague. Opiate means a pure plant-based substance like opium or heroin. And an opioid means either a synthetically created or altered substance. And so after working on a number of bills over the years, um, the drafters and I decided, let's just clean up the language. So this bill changes the term opiate to opioid, like substance changes the …
S.B. 317 Opioid Terminology Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 42) · Mar 3, 2026
Moves under suspension of the rules that the bill pass out of the Senate.
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Uh, thank you Mr. President. Under suspension of the rules, I would, um, move that this bill pass out of the Senate.
S.B. 317 Opioid Terminology Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb asks to adopt the first substitute, which adds coordinating language.
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Here we go. Right here. Um, yes, Mr. Chair and committee, fellow committee members, I would love to move the first sub if we could it, uh, simply add some coordinating, uh, language.
S.B. 317 Opioid Terminology Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb presented the bill, which changes the term opiate to opioid in the code, including opiate antagonist and opiate related drug overdose event, to update the language.
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Okay. Substitute. I will speak. But you stay around. Yes. Don't leave This bill. Um, it's interesting. As I've worked through different opioid policy over the last decade or so, we find ourselves in a whole lot of different codes and a variety of different code spaces. And one of the things that we've noted over time is that some of the terminology and language has changed. Uh, and for example, if you recall hearing about the opiate epidemic, and now you probably more frequently hear about the opioid epidemic. Well, pharmacists will tell you that opiate means a pure plant-based substance like opium, uh, or heroin. And an opioid means either synthetically created or altered substance. When we're working …
S.B. 317 Opioid Terminology Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb moved to place the first substitute of the bill on the consent calendar.
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Okay. I would like to make a motion that we place this on the consent calendar, uh, Senate bill three 17. First substitute
H.B. 15 Medicaid Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Moved to place HB 15 on the Consent Calendar and expressed strong support, noting the bill has a zero fiscal note and has been unanimous throughout the process.
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Thank you. To the sponsor. I'm Actually feel like I'm in Vegas and I'm willing to put all my chips on consent because otherwise, with the way the sift works, um, I could just, uh, die on the Hillary step. But the analogy that I use really didn't matter adverse, if you know what that is. So there again, zero fiscal note. Uh, all along the process, it's been unanimous. Interim session minus one vote. There's always one. Um, so anyway, that, yes, I strongly support that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
H.C.R. 8 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP to Establish the Weight Management and Obesity Pilot Program · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Thanked Rep. Barlow for his service and the example he has set.
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Well, I would certainly be remiss not to join in, and although I'm a newer joiner, I've been so grateful to learn from the way that you, um, educate and also participate with folks. Don't leave me. Mm. Can you stay? Just kidding? I wish you all the best, but thank you for all the good that you've done and the great example you've set as well.
H.C.R. 8 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP to Establish the Weight Management and Obesity Pilot Program · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Moved to place the resolution on the Senate consent calendar.
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I would love to make that motion. Mr. Chair. Could we, um, oh, I gotta get to the number. Here we go. HCR uh, eight. Substitute one for the consent calendar in the Senate. I would like to make a motion that we recommend that
H.B. 350 Foods Available at Schools Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says she supports the bill's focus on children's nutrition but has concerns about distributors, funding, and balancing resources, and asks for continued discussion.
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You know, this is such an interesting rabbit hole right? To go down. Yeah. And we think, we talk about last year with the, um, kind of sodas and stuff and mm-hmm. As someone who cares deeply about children's wellness, I, I, I, I think you're onto something here. I do worry a little bit about how we work through distributors and the systems and the funds and that sort of a thing that, so that's one of those like kind of burrs stuck under my saddle on that. But I think that, um, I, I think that there is really something for us to be thinking about in terms of the quality that we do provide our kids in …
H.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP Regarding Hormone Replacement Therapy · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Supported the bill and said the topic has long been overlooked in medical training.
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I just, I just appreciate the conversation coming forward and it, this has been a long time coming where this could actually be just out there in the open, like a, any other medical condition. And it's unfortunate that perhaps it takes so many of us approaching the age of a certain age where you really appreciate. But, but this has been in my career, something that I wasn't taught anything about in 1996 to 2000 when I was in med school. And now we are, we're feeling the brunt of that. So thank you for bringing this forward. Thank You.
H.B. 388 Public Health Hazard Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Questions whether health departments could respond to every paraphernalia finding and how many lodging properties would be affected.
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Interesting. Uh, thank you Mr. Chair. I I have a, a couple of questions. I think in an area that I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, I can't fathom that every time there's a syringe found in a hotel room or a lodging, whatever that might be, that we would have the resources to dispatch out someone from a local health authority and then call that potentially a methamphetamine contaminated. Is that, is that how you're envisioning it? Because when I see paraphernalia, when you mention that paraphernalia is there, um, I, I know when I've been on outreach situations that there are entires lodging establishments that the whole place would have to be because a piece …
H.B. 388 Public Health Hazard Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says the scope seems very broad and doubts the numbers could work in practice.
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I gotta be honest, I think this is kooky. Really? Yeah, I do. I think this is crazy that, that such, to me, every overdose scene, every possible place where there would all of a sudden potentially be reported as a a, a drug contaminated property. I just, I think that the scope of this is colossal. I, I really do appreciate, I think the initial thought, but I don't, I don't see how this could, I just don't see numbers wise how this could play out.
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Makes brief remarks about her voice and a distraction before presenting the bill.
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Hope I have the darn bug in my ear. You know, when you're trying to be vote in one committee and present. Yes. This morning is a full on Monday. If you're a little distracted, we'll understand. Oh, Thank you. Thank you. Maybe I will keep it in just in case
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presents SB 143 to raise the vehicle exemption from $3,000 to $10,000, citing outdated limits and nearby states, and adds a provision to keep an adapted vehicle for people with mobility limitations.
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It's a reminder. I'm capable. Thank you. Committee, and, um, welcome to Monday. Uh, this bill I would like to present to you, uh, Senate Bill 1 43 came out of a call from a constituent who was going through some financial hardships and it looked like was probably, uh, working towards, uh, a bankruptcy and was trying to figure out what pieces of their life they were going to have to be parting with. And one of the things that they were most concerned about was their car. And if you don't have a car, if you don't have the ability to drive to work, get your kids to school or daycare or whatever else, your ability to earn …
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Senator Plumb jokes that her car broke down on the way to the meeting.
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Um, I heard, uh, it was fighting you this morning or something. It Just decided to quit on seventh East and fourth South because really there's probably not a better intersection except maybe before South and State Street. So the good news is tow truck has been dispatched. My intern rescued me. All is Well. You know, sometimes I feel like just quitting too. So, you Know what? I, I Actually give your car break. Thought it might have been a message from the universe, but then I was like, no, we both can't quit today. Not both of us.
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Plumb presents S.B. 128, which sets up a local or regional public alert for missing vulnerable people, prompted by advocates and a recent missing-person case.
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Thank you so much. Um, members of the committee, uh, Senate Bill 1 28 is a bill, um, that was actually brought to me by a group of advocates, uh, parents moms who wanted to have, uh, a conversation about some of our vulnerable folks and what happens to them when they are missing or when there's an inability to contact them. Earlier, you might remember a few months back, there was, uh, a gentleman who wasn't very verbal and didn't have typical communication strategies who was on the run. And we didn't have a great system to coordinate our public safety along with our engaged community members. And so we started these conversations after that, worked with Chief Red, …
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says other states use similar alerts with different scopes, and anecdotal reports suggest faster finding of missing people, though there is little formal research.
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Well, similarly kind of to what I described, and it depends a little bit on the locality, what they want it to, to look like. Um, some do more of a statewide, some have st stuck with a local sort of a scenario. I should have, gosh, I had a list of the, the crew of them that actually have put them into place. I, I think there's, gosh, I might have to phone a friend, uh, to our policy analyst who ha actually helped me when we, we constructed all this, were there like 12 of them, Lacey, oh, hang on, there's a vote. Which bill is this? It's not, is the season Nothing like a quick multitask? Thumbs …
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says the alert addresses a unique need, that communication education is important for these populations, and that coordination gaps were identified.
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Not too many of them. And I think that this, this need is so unique in that, um, there's a lot of, I think, education and thought that will go into explaining why we have to tread differently, um, with these populations. How we can help and not hurt in the way that we communicate. And I think also, at least from conversations with Chief Fred and with other folks, that they realized a decent gap in the event that had happened in their knowledge and their ability to link in and coordinate with others. And, and so the hope is that will be a big part of it too.
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Responds to Gwynn's concerns, acknowledges the concern about too many alerts, and asks for the committee's support given this population's vulnerability.
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Oh, I, I mean, absolutely appreciate, um, the comments from Representative Gwynn and it's something that has gone through my head a lot too. If we have an alert for every possible thing, then they are no longer eye catching or ear catching. And, um, it, it, but for the, I think, unique vulnerability and concerns with this population, I would have that same reservation. Um, so I, but I appreciate him sharing that. 'cause those are the conversations that are important. And with that, I would appreciate any support.
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb, a physician, appreciates the changes but says medical professionals already have ways to decline certain care, and she is uncomfortable with where the bill is heading.
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Thank you, Mr. President Pro Tem and, and I, um, do applaud the sponsor for the direction and the changes that have been made. Um, in this bill space. I think it's especially important, um, that some of the payer's information, et cetera, came out. But I've heard from so many, um, fellow physicians and people in the medical space that I do want to speak to some of their concerns and thoughts on this. And largely that revolves around the fact that medicine and healthcare already have strategies by which someone can refuse, uh, to provide, uh, certain care or to a certain person. Um, that's, for example, if something's medically inappropriate or if it would be futile or …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Moves to concur on the third substitute and explains that it added definitions of a screening and a dyslexia diagnosis.
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Thank you Mr. President. Uh, I do move that we would concur on this bill. This sub was actually introduced by me in committee after, uh, conversations with my house sponsor or floor sponsor. It added a couple of definitions about what a screening is, as well as made clear and defined what, uh, a diagnosis of dyslexia is and what it is not. I think it added, um, good pieces to the bill. So do we get a motion to concur?
S.R. 4 Resolution Encouraging the Integration of Agriculture into Residential Development · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Asks to encircle a bill and suggests uncircling a bill that was never heard.
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Thank you. Thank you Mr. President Proti. I would love to Encircle isn't, it wouldn't be terrible if you uncircled one that had never been heard.
S.B. 169 High School Graduation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Presents S.B. 169 as a small bill that creates a pathway for students with atypical paths to graduation to attend graduation ceremonies and participate.
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Again, this bill is a fairly simple small bill that allows a pathway for students to attend graduation and participate in graduation ceremonies when they've had a somewhat atypical path to graduation. Simple as that. Thank you for that presentation.
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Says the bill was amended yesterday, that the amendment puts it in a good spot, and encourages a yes vote.
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This bill requires hospitals to do some reporting and data collecting on violence and episodes that are happening within hospitals. As you recall, we made an amendment and adopted it yesterday, and I think it's in a good spot. I would encourage our vote.
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Thanks the presiding officer and asks that the question be called on the bill.
▶ Watch at 1:23:38Read what they said
for summation or motion. Thank You Mr. President ProAm. I would, with that I would call the question
H.B. 174 Sex Characteristic Change Treatment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Said gender-related care is essential care, expressed concern that the bill goes against the earlier moratorium and study, and urged thoughtful use of studies in policy.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Um, this is an interesting bill for me to have run through the mental gymnastics on because I actually personally and as a physician, believe that gender related care is essential care, all of it. And it's, it's such a challenge to try to figure out how we negotiate the spaces where we as policy makers interact with the communities and those who also in, in ga enact engage in care spaces. I think, um, I I just want to say one more time, um, that the moratorium that was put in place by the former Senator Kennedy and the study that was done as of a part of it, informed us greatly. And it does …
S.B. 324 Outcome-based Investment Grant Pilot Framework · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asked where the 10 million dollars would go and how it would be spent in a tight fiscal year.
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Man, I should have waved. It'll be good. I, I Know with apologies that I arrived late and so was trying to catch up quickly. Uh, in this fiscally tight year, can you help me understand where $10 million goes, how it goes? So, um, understand, I I didn't catch the last part, Like $10 million. What? It just, it's direct, like what it's going toward in a, in a brief two sentence deal,
S.B. 324 Outcome-based Investment Grant Pilot Framework · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asked for confirmation of how the grant and its administration fit together.
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Development. Okay, so it's the grant and the administration of the grant, the both pieces of it kind Of Yeah, the, uh, the, the, They go, yeah, they go back, if I understand it right, it goes back to 23.
S.B. 324 Outcome-based Investment Grant Pilot Framework · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Thanked the sponsor for the explanation.
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Okay. Thank you for that. Get me up to speed piece. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I had another light.
H.B. 71 Health Provider Directory and Access Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Says the bill was discussed the previous day.
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Skipping from slightly to the left. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. We talked about this, uh, bill yesterday
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Thanks colleagues for their support of the bill and says it has been moved into a better place.
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and we've moved it into a really great place. Uh, and I'm grateful for the body support on it.
H.B. 374 Speech, Language, and Hearing Occupations Licensing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Describes H.B. 380 as requiring hospitals to track and report workplace violence and extending a repeal date for some previous criminal enhancements.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this bill requires hospitals to track and report instances of workplace violence. It also extends at a repeal date for some previous criminal enhancements
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Sen. Plumb presented H.B. 380, saying it adds penalties for certain crimes against healthcare employees and protects workers from retaliation when reports are made.
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for some previous criminal enhancements for certain crimes against, uh, an employee of a healthcare facility. And I think it makes some smart moves about protecting people against potential retaliation when reports are made. Um, this bill is good for our healthcare workforces, which are facing increased stressors, and I'm certainly open to any questions. Thank you. Senator Plumb.
S.B. 267 Software in Education Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Confirms she is ready for a personal privilege and thanks the presiding officer.
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Yes. Thank you very much. Uh, Mr. President, I, I know that Darryl's gonna be escorting
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Sen. Plumb said she could not answer the penalty question in detail and offered to consult legislative staff, asking Sen. Brammer whether he saw the answer in the bill.
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You know, that's actually, I think, uh, an important question and I don't know that I can answer that with enough granularity. I can absolutely phone a friend and speak to LRGC. Do you, do you see one when you read it, Senator Brammer?
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the first part of the bill covers reporting and retaliation protections, while a sunset date change in the code needs further review, and that she would get answers to Sen. Brammer.
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The first portion of the bill down through section four is all about the reporting and a little bit of the protections against retaliation. The, the part, um, just after four where it talks about repealing the dates, um, from there was going to be a Sunset essentially in 2027 in subsection 76 dash five dash 1 0 2 0.7 sub two B. Can I almost be an attorney? Sorry. Um, that's the thing I think I need to dig in further to get the granularity on those questions answered for you. Um, I certainly, if we're willing to move forward on this bill, we'll get those answers and both get to them to you personally and on a third …
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Sen. Plumb proposed circling the bill to gather more information from the House sponsor, and moved to circle it as a substitute motion.
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I I have a thought that perhaps if we circled it now and I could get, uh, a little more information and perspective from the house, um, sponsor, I would have better information to offer if, if that would be an acceptable Step. Yeah. And I think that's more than fair. And with that I'll withdraw the motion And, and I'd actually take the motion to circle as a substitute motion. So I'll take that motion. That would be great.
S.B. 180 School Nutrition Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Asks to encircle third substitute S.B. 170, Vitamin K Amendments.
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Thank you Mr. President ProAm. Um, I have a bill I would like to encircle, please. Senate bill one 70 Sub three. Uh, the motion is to encircle third substitute Senate Bill one 70 Vitamin K Amendments.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Calls for a vote on third substitute S.B. 170.
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Uh, with that I would call a question. The question is, shall third substitute Senate Bill one 70 pass Roll call vote.
H.B. 309 Juneteenth Observance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Asks for a motion to encircle House Bill 380.
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Thank you Mr. President Prote, I would like us to encircle the bill. We were speaking out a few back house Bill three 80. If we could Please motion on Encircle house Bill three 80.
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Says she has spoken with the House sponsor and reached an agreement to move the bill forward, and asks Senator Brammer about the amendment.
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You Mr. President ProAm, I have spoken with the house sponsor as has my colleague, Senator Brammer, and it sounds like we have, uh, an agreement to move forward. Um, Senator Brammer?
H.B. 380 Hospital Workplace Violence Reporting Requirements · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Says recording workplace violence in healthcare settings is important work and that she supports the bill even with the date change, and moves to call the question.
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Uh, thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. Uh, as I was mentioning, I, I do think that this is important work to be recording workplace violence that's happening in our healthcare settings, which, uh, was the original intent of the bill. And even with the date change, I believe this is a great bill and we should support it with that. I would call the question.
H.B. 339 Street Medicine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Expresses support for the bill, saying it adds guardrails for street medicine providers and keeps providers focused on the same mission.
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Uh, thank you Mr. President and, and more, uh, than a question. I, I really just wanted to voice support for this bill. This is a space that, um, the people who do it well do it so well. And there are some folks who perhaps, um, have good intentions but don't do it well. And I think that this is the way to ensure we have some guardrails in place. As well as that folks are all for focusing on the same mission. Uh, I I support this bill. Think it's a great bill.
S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Says constituents have asked that their current leave accumulation be kept and that grandfathering be included, and suggests further dialogue as the bill moves.
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Thank you, Mr. President ProAm without, um, being too duplicative, I, I think it's just, um, given the number of emails and kind of heartfelt plea that I've gotten from constituents that they be allowed to maintain the current, um, allocation or accumulation, I guess it is structure that they have. I just, I really wanted to make a, a plug again for that possibility that the grandfathering would not only include what they've already got, but that they might be able to continue that. So perhaps as the bill moves along, further dialogue with that can find its way in. That's it.
H.B. 333 Adoption Records Access Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Moves that the committee favorably recommend HB 333 to the full Senate.
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I'd love to, uh, make a motion that we favorably recommend house bill 3, 3 3 out to the full body of Senate.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presented Senate Bill 111 to limit non-compete clauses for future veterinary employment contracts to help retain veterinarians, noting that reimbursement and claw back clauses remain allowed and existing contracts are not affected.
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thank you Senate Bill one 11. First sub veterinarian post-employment amendments. Time of yours. Oftentimes, I'm the one accused of having interesting conversations, so mine's pretty straightforward. Good? Yes. Um, thank you all committee. I am here to present, and apologies for the battery situation happening this morning on Senate Bill one 11, which, uh, addresses veterinary post employment agreements or non-compete clauses. And I, you know, had had discussions with others. I know there have been a couple of different bills taking a couple different takes on this, um, this session. And it's been interesting to me to listen to some of our colleagues from past sessions, even, you know, a decade ish back. And, and I, I really …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said drafting discussions raised likely constitutional and federal challenges to applying the bill to existing contracts, so it applies going forward.
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We had those conversations, didn't we? With, uh, the drafting attorneys, et cetera. And, and because we see that same kind of thinking, but, uh, the way that we understand it or the the way that it was kinda presented to us during those, um, discussions is that we would really face some pretty significant probably constitutional and federal challenges in undoing pre-existing contracts. And I can see why, you know, as the ebbs and flows of politics go, that if every four years, for example, somebody wanted to go back and undo everything that had happened from the four years before, that's probably not the best policy stance on in any space, not just in contract law. So that …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said non-compete practices are shifting in human medicine and that the bill addresses a broader concern in the health care field.
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I, I think there's a pattern of it shifting. Um, I have seen, um, I don't have one, so, so it's a little hard for me to say. And I've stayed in my same job for, uh, since 2004, so 22 years. But I, I have heard from a lot of folks in, in human medicine the same thing. And, and that's why I was really glad to see Representative Hall's Bill addressing this, that we're kind of crossing, you know, ships crossing in the night, um, her bill coming over from the house. And it was also fascinating to see from the discussions around her bill that there wasn't a lot of pushback from, uh, the big medical entities, …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said Senate colleagues asked why only certain professions are covered and hoped the approach would extend to other professions.
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Well, and I'm actually glad you brought that up because there was a question from my senate colleagues, why are we carving out individual professions? Um, and, and that seal had kind of been broken with that legislation that, that Senator Hemer run, ran on, on broadcast journalism spaces. And, and it, my hope is that the seal break continues and that this will be more broad across other professions.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Thanked the committee for the dialogue and support for the bill.
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Uh, I, I appreciate as always, the dialogue and, um, I, I really think this is the right path. So with much appreciation for support.
H.B. 105 Child Welfare Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Says she was waiting for colleagues and asks whether the chamber can move forward or whether she can take up another bill first.
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Thank you Mr. President. I, um, was looking for the rest of my crew, but I think we just march forward either way. I would love to if we Could. Okay. I can, I can run another bill if you don't want to right now, I can come back to you. I'd love that. Will you give me a one
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Explains that after committee the bill was revised to reduce judicial involvement, describing how held animals could be kept in shelters, private or rescue spaces, or foster care, with owners able to be responsible for fees before a forfeiture process.
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This Bill, uh, after committee, it was brought to the attention that we could do this more thoughtfully with less, um, involvement of processes in the judicial. Uh, much thanks to my colleague, Senator Brammer for assisting with that. And so at this point, what this bill essentially does is it makes some amendments to what happens when an animal is held, uh, say in an animal shelter while a criminal case is pending. Currently, uh, there's a case that has been described in this bill where it costs, uh, $21,000 to hold an animal during a judicial process. We can do this better and we can do this in a more fiscally responsible way. And this bill sets a …
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Waives summation and asks for the question to be called on the bill.
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For summation and a motion, I would waive summation and, uh, call the question please.
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Waived summation on the bill and asked for the question to be called.
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For summation and a motion, I would waive summation and, uh, call the question please.
H.B. 174 Sex Characteristic Change Treatment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Recounts her experience on the earlier bill, praises the study's authors, expresses support for transgender youth and families, and says she will vote no.
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Uh, thank you Mr. President and, and to the body. I think, um, there's a, a, a few things. I I really do feel obligated to get on the record as part of this discussion. Um, uh, my very first committee hearing ever here elected as a senator was in the committee hearing with Dr slash Senator Kennedy when we had the conversations about this. And, um, I understood and now still understand where his mind processing was about that. And I also appreciated the thought that went into it to try to protect the care options for the folks who were in the midst of care watching over the last couple of years. Uh, uh, and I watched as …
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Says the amount in the bill has not been raised in about a decade, that the bill helps people stay employed and supported while getting back on their feet, and invites questions.
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It's been over, I believe, a decade since this has been increased and we work with folks that work in the space as well. I, I think it's a, a good way to keep people employed and taking care of things while they're getting back on their feet. With that, I'm open to any questions,
S.R. 3 Senate Resolution Regarding Animal Sheltering During Disasters · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Says owners want to care for their own pets during a disaster without adding burden to shelters and first responders, thanks those who helped with the language, and is open to questions.
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spaces will help owners like myself do the right thing and be able to take care of my own pet during a disaster and not require any additional taking care of by our shelters and our first responders. Um, I appreciate all the work that went into helping me get this language right. And with that I'm open to any questions.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Presented SB 80, saying it makes clear that a physician cannot be accused of unprofessional conduct or lose a license for refusing or participating in an execution.
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Oh gosh, This room is angsty. I don't know. It's big and the es is big and yeah, Welcome to the house. Thank you. Right. Everything's bigger in the house apparently. Don't quote me on that though. Um, I appreciate the opportunity to present this bill to you all. It's, um, certainly not something that we talk about all that Often. Can you pull your mic a little closer? Yeah. Thank you. Not, not loud enough is not a comment I often get, so I'll take it. Um, thi this is a topic, we don't talk about that often, but when we do, I think it's important that we give it kind of the reverence for lack of a better …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said participation is not random and would apply to certain corrections or health department employed physicians as part of their job duties.
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Yeah. In my Under or how, how do they do it? In my understanding, it, it's not random. So we wouldn't, it's not like jury duty that you would just get a, a postcard or just get a tap on the shoulder that it would be you. But that certain individuals say within corrections or possibly within our DHHS spaces, that that would be, it doesn't happen that often, but that would be if they were physician employed in that space, that would potentially be park seen as part of their, their responsibilities or their job duties.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said it is more a job expectation than a civic duty, described physicians arranging coverage for procedures they are not comfortable with, and said physicians want protection from license consequences when asked to take a life.
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I, I don't know if I'd say civic duty. I'd say more of a, um, maybe a job expectation. And I think the conversations will go further on as this session per, uh, continues. But one of the things in medicine that we work with pretty diligently is there are areas that you're either not as good at, not as experienced in or not as comfortable with. And what we typically do is look to our colleagues, look to our, uh, other fellow practitioners and say, this is maybe not the best space for me. Is it something that you would be comfortable assisting with? I, I think back to when I was in residency, I was in Indiana and …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Confirmed that a physician who participates or declines would not face repercussions under the bill.
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Correct. Um, but at the same time, if I am willing to do it and I do it, I guess that's where you're at.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said physicians should have protection from losing their license or facing professional repercussions either way they decide.
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Um, and, and I do, like I said, after I thought more about it after it was brought up to me, I was like, you know, that is such a critical decision tree point for people, um, at, at, at the thought of being asked to take a life. There should be some protections that you would not have lose your license or have professional repercussions either way that you went on that.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Thanked the committee for its consideration and said much thought had gone into the issue.
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No, I, I appreciate that. And, and like I said, a lot of thought is come to my mind, so I appreciate your consideration with this. Alright.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said the reasoning could extend to other situations, but the bill is clear that it applies to executions.
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You know, I think that the line of reasoning potentially goes into that, but this is pretty clear that it's an execution.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Presented S.B. 96, which would let the Opioid Fatality Review Committee access treatment records protected under 42 CFR for fatality reviews, and described the bill's origin in a multi-stakeholder working group.
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Um, 96. Okay. So Senate Bill 96 is, um, I don't know if you all remember when I talked to you about the same 10 people, the STP that Uintah the, um, NCSL fellowship that we did on preventing opioid overdose deaths. So this was another thing that came out of that with the same 10 people, which included Senator Vickers and Representative Gwynn and myself and Lisa Sorenson was actually there. We had representatives from DPS and from DHHS and the Office of the Medical Examiner. And we were trying to brainstorm about ways that we could make improvements in the opioid fatality space. And one area that came up from the office of the Medical examiner was that …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said she takes part in the review group's conversations but not in the data abstraction work, which involves law enforcement, medical record reviewers, and child welfare staff.
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So I participate in the conversations, but I'm not in any of the data abstraction groups. So that's usually people either from the, uh, representatives from law enforcement who will dig into the clinical record part. There's people from Intermountain Healthcare as well as the University of Utah that will get into the medical records parts. Um, there's folks that'll look through, um, DCFS and, and child welfare involvement. They, they're, they have kind of different folks. So I sit there as a contributor, but not as a data abstractor.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said the bill allows appropriate people with access to the records to use them in the review while keeping an added layer of protection.
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Uh, oh, it's, it's actually opening them up a bit. Okay. So that they can, they can be used in this fatality review process by the appropriate folks who have access to the records. But there's just that little extra protection that the ags office and the OME wanted to make sure that we as a state were okay with them looking through. So it, it actually grants increased access to use that piece as part of the review.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said her service on the committee has been recent, and described earlier recommendations as often vague and hard to implement.
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My gosh. It's been pretty recent. I would say. Uh, in fact, I think you and I did not cross paths. Um, 'cause I know you were there in the early days and then I've probably been about a year or so, and I understand it's been quite an evolving process. Do you feel like you could give any examples of improvements to the process that came out of those cases? Of from what just of you observed what information came up? I mean Yeah. It seemed to me when I was there that like at lot of times there were some vague recommendations or recommendations that it wasn't clear how you would go about implementing them that were, I …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said the review process has become more defined and organized, with more recommendations on harm reduction, and said she does not have concrete examples.
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You know, it's, um, I, from my understanding, again, not having been there in those early years, from my understanding, there's a much more defined process that's been coming together. There's a woman named Casey Robinson who has, um, kind of shepherded the Child Fatality Review Board, which, which I've actually been on for a number of years. Apparently. I like some of these spaces that are a little, or I'm drawn to some of these spaces that are a little less uplifting, but je hope uplifting comes out of them. Right. Um, and I think that they are, from my understanding from the other folks who've been there longer, there is definitely more organization and there is more attention …
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Presents SB 98, which authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to create a certification program for recovery-ready employers, with rulemaking authority and no fiscal note.
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Okay. Lemme go to 98. Here we go. So, substance use rehabilitation amendments. Uh, it's always interesting to me, the titles that come out, um, is a bill that has come together with the hope that we can start, um, advancing policy around a recovery ready workplace concept in Utah. And Dr. Chen described, as she described in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, uh, described this as sort of a, a reboot boot and a regrowth of something that was called, uh, Drug-Free Workplace. So this is kind of like drug-Free Workplace 2.0 and, and what the hope of recovery ready workplaces is. And, and some of these spots are, um, places where perhaps folks that have gone …
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Defers the policy question to Evan Done, a recovery-friendly employer, and introduces him.
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Well, and I don't know if Dr. Chen is there as, uh, to speak to it as well, but I, I think that someone who's more experienced in what that actually looks like would be much better person to answer it. Uh, sure. Evan do is here, if that's okay to add him to my presentation. Evan Donn, Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness.
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Responds that prevention includes many approaches and that keeping people employed and families out of the justice system is a reasonable prevention investment. · speaker not certain
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Yeah, no, and I, I think that that is, uh, both an, uh, possible expected as well as a, a realistic question. And to me, prevention looks like a lot of different things. And prevention may look like the beginning of, before somebody ever gets themself into a space with substances, whether that's nicotine, whether that's alcohol, whether that's other prescription pills or illicit substances. Sometimes prevention looks like that very early before anybody touches it. Sometimes prevention looks like, all right, how do we prevent or ameliorate further harms instead of allowing people to go further and further down the struggle that they've had with substances. Um, I, I, for me, prevention looks like a whole lot of things. …
H.B. 417 Patient Interfacility Transportation Requirements · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Says the bill is appropriate and wise and speaks in support of it, noting how often transportation costs affect patient care and finances.
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You know, I'm a little, I dunno if embarrassed is the right word to think that. I didn't ever think of this after seeing how often this actually impacts patient care and patient pocket books. Um, this is very appropriate and I think very wise. So just wanted to speak in support of the bill.
H.B. 339 Street Medicine Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Sen. Plumb expressed support for the bill and said guardrails are important for vulnerable populations receiving street medicine.
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Senator Plumb. You know, I I'm in big support of all the work that you've done over the years, as well as what you're thinking policy wise. Um, Representative Clancy, I also think there, there's likely a crucial piece here in that with populations that are a bit more vulnerable, that putting some things with guardrails on is smart. I, I know that in the time that I've felt adjacent to the work you do, there are a, a lot of folks who say we're gonna go out and do some medical things out there. And, and that's, that's not the solution that it really, I think does need to have those guardrails in place and have it be more …
H.B. 339 Street Medicine Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Sen. Plumb moved to favorably recommend the first substitute of HB 339 to the full Senate.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. I would move that we favorably recommend substitute number one of House Bill 3 3 9, forward to the full body of the Senate.
S.B. 218 Constable Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says she has an amendment to S.B. 143 and wants to move the bill, and offers to explain the amendment.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. Um, I do have an amendment. I would like to move on this bill. I can do a little explaining and what that is
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Explains the proposed amendment, which lowers the motor vehicle exemption amount from $15,000 to $10,000 after consultation with colleagues.
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Yeah. So the amendment goes to the amount of exemption that this bill will allow for the value of a motor vehicle exemption. After presenting this bill and committee, we had presented a proposed amount of $15,000 for an individual's vehicle after consulting with some of my colleagues here and outside of here, it seemed that $10,000 was a better number. We'll, Thanks.
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Presents the bill, saying a constituent facing bankruptcy found the $3,000 vehicle exemption outdated, and that the bill raises it to $10,000 and allows a vehicle fitted for a person with a mobility limitation to be kept.
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Thank you, Mr. President. This bill came to me after some, a constituent had reached out, um, in a bit of a, a financial situation where they were going to be going through bankruptcy and going through all of the processes associated with that. And they, um, had informed me that the amount of a car that was allowed to be kept was $3,000. This has not been updated for years, um, in our Utah code. And they were asking if I thought it would be reasonable to try to increase that amount. I I think we all know that you need transportation to be able to get to a job, to be able to keep an income, get your …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the bill reflects stakeholder input, cleans up search and seizure provisions from Senate Bill 61, and increases licensure fees to help dispose of illegal vape cartridges, and urges passage.
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This bill has had a lot of stakeholder input and essentially helps us clean up some pieces from Senate Bill 61 a couple years ago to get our search and seizure parts cleaned up. It also increases licensure fees so that we can dispose of illegal vape cartridges that cost $5 a piece. Um, I appreciate all the folks who've put good work on this and, and would encourage us to move it forward.
S.B. 153 Election Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Asks to circle the bill for a moment because a substitute is coming out.
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Thank you Mr. President ProAm. I would love to circle this for just a moment as I have a sub coming out.
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
The sponsor says the bill adds a clarification requested by Dopel and the attorney general's office so the law's original intent can go forward, stating that a program cannot participate in conflict of interest by providing two different services.
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Thank you Ms. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. This bill adds a clarification that was requested by Dopel and the ags office so that our initial intent of the law could go forward. It's simply adding that a program can also not participate in conflict of interest, um, provision of two different services. And that's it. Simple. Bill,
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says she has revised the bill to require education on newborn vitamin K administration and offer an opt-out, and moves to substitute the revised version.
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Thank you Mr. President. Um, yesterday we talked about this bill and I, I took a little bit of a temperature and a pulse check on the room and realized that perhaps I needed to think a little bit more about the policy because there was some kind of unease. Uh, and so the substitute I would like to, um, move forward now, which is third substitute only requires education on what Vitamin K administration to newborns does and also offers, uh, an opt out policy. Um, if, if anyone would like to discuss that, otherwise I'd, I'd love to make a motion to substitute that.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Explains that vitamin K is a vitamin needed for blood clotting, given to newborns to prevent serious brain bleeds, and cites figures showing declines in administration rising from 1% to 6% since 2018.
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Yeah, I think just to help educate and I've learned a lot from my own readings on this that I perhaps didn't know the skepticism and nerves around pharmaceutical products and vaccines that have arisen over the past decade. You know, I do understand why people are having nerves about them. I think that in the establishment, we at times have not done the best job about educating and also about allowing people to form their own opinions. And something that fell into that is this vitamin K administration that is given to newborns shortly after they're born. It's a vitamin. Uh, I know Intermountain Healthcare hospitals don't even have a preservative in it anymore. It's a vitamin. And what …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says she hopes parents can make informed choices about the vitamin K shot, citing patients she has treated with brain bleeds, and asks whether circling the bill for the fiscal note works.
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Absolutely. I would love that. Um, my, my biggest hope out of this is that from the two patients I've seen in the last year who had bleeds into their brain, and I'd never seen it before in my career, one really stuck with me. And that was the father who said, I really wish I would've known what I was turning down. And so I would like this education so that parents can make informed, educated parental choice. I'm always going to support that, but the education piece is so crucial. So now that I've re blathered on about something I'm clearly quite passionate about, let's circle it for that fiscal note and to be continued on. Third read, …
S.R. 3 Senate Resolution Regarding Animal Sheltering During Disasters · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Presents S.R. 3 as a reminder that local governments can consider how pet owners would care for their animals during disasters, so shelters and first responders are not overburdened; says it imposes no requirements.
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and me realizing how much complexity there is across our state and across each of our communities and the needs of each community having its own, um, kind of flavor. I'm grateful to those on the, um, natural Resources Committee who helped me find this pathway because what I really wanted to do was to bring attention to our emergency management spaces and the thinking around that that says, Hey, if we can help, I dunno if I dare refer to myself as, you know, the kooky dog lovers like myself, have a way that I can be the one to take care of my animal, should a disaster strike so that the shelters don't have to. And so that …
S.R. 3 Senate Resolution Regarding Animal Sheltering During Disasters · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Responds to Senator Hinkins's question and agrees to yield.
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Yes. I mean, Senator Plumb, what'd I say? I'll take that flattery. Thank you. Yeah. Senator Plumb.
S.R. 3 Senate Resolution Regarding Animal Sheltering During Disasters · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says she had not thought about the topic historically that far back, but can see the comparison.
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I hadn't thought historically back quite that far, but I think I can see it. I think I can see it.
S.R. 3 Senate Resolution Regarding Animal Sheltering During Disasters · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Thanks colleagues for their work over the past couple of years, says the conversations were what mattered, and calls the question.
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Yeah, I, I really do appreciate all the work after a couple years into this, that, that it's really the conversations that matter and I appreciate it. And with that, I'd call the question
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the bill has been widely discussed, that other states are seeing remains returned, and that the bill sets requirements for a removable container, a location marker, and disclosure.
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Thank you Mr. President Prote. This, um, bill has been the topic of much discussion and much thought, and I do appreciate the body for the amount of kind of information they've given me as it's unfolded. I think as we think about a vote on this bill, one of the most important things possibly to consider is that this process is happening in other states with people returning to the state with these remains. I think one of the most responsible things we can do would be to put policy into place that reflects what Utah would like as opposed to just having it be happening without us having any say in it. That being said, I'm certainly open …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the bill does not require clouding a property title, and that real estate industry members strongly objected to such a requirement.
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No, it absolutely does not require any clouding of, of a title, which I think as I spoke with many of the people in, in the real estate industry, they felt very strongly that that was not okay. Well, it wouldn't be okay for the homeowner who is burying grandma in the backyard, but, okay, I understand.
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Clarifies that her earlier comment referred to the impact on the industry.
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I meant more for the industry. It wouldn't be great for the industry is what I meant.
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says some funeral directors are reluctant while younger ones are interested, that 14 other states have similar laws without significant lawsuits, and that the remains are returning regardless, so guardrails are the responsible approach.
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Senator Plumb? You know, it's been interesting talking with, um, different funeral directors across the state and, and there certainly is some reluctance from the folks who have procedures and processes in place where they tend to do the more standard, uh, either cremation or embalming procedure. Um, they're a little less interested in this procedure, some of the younger and in the generational businesses, some of the, you know, that's been gone down. It's gone down from generation to generation. The younger folks have been, um, more interested in it. As far as actual liabilities, this would be, there are 14 states before us that have these in place. We would be the 15th state and, and there have …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the food-growing provision was added at the request of colleagues who were uncomfortable with it, and that there was no data showing harm.
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That was actually added, um, at the request of, of some of our colleagues last year, that they had concerns about this being used in an arena where food may be grown. It wasn't everybody, but it felt like a big enough concern to folks that I wanted to address it and I didn't want to ignore it. I think that, um, like many things, sometimes you start with, with smaller steps and then if time goes along, maybe you stay there or you open it up more broadly. It is interesting that you know, many of our farmers and ranchers who can speak to this far more than I can, there are bodies that are put into the earth …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says she has just seen the amendment and is comfortable with it.
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I'm just seeing it right now. Um, um, honestly, I I actually am okay with this.
S.B. 222 Right to Try Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Thanks the sponsor for work on the bill's language and reporting structure, and says she is switching her vote from no to aye.
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Senator Plumb President pro Tem, I just, uh, wanted to rise and, uh, acknowledge the good sponsor for all of the work that went into trying to make multiple people feel more comfortable with this bill and to work on the language as well as to work on, uh, a bit of a reporting structure. And it, it, it's always nice when you get to the point where you can switch your vote from a no to an aye. And with that, IM an aye.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Plumb explained that the bill bans certain non-compete arrangements in veterinary medicine, citing veterinary shortages in many counties, and asked for a vote in favor.
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Senator Plumb. Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. This bill enacts, uh, a non-compete sort of a ban I would say in our veterinary medicine space. We are 24% down with 24 of our 29 counties needing veterinary medicine. There are still ways for employers to get paid back and to ensure that their investments are supported. But this bill, uh, goes hand in hand with one coming from us to from the house to us and I would encourage us to vote it through. Thank you for that presentation.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Plumb asked to call the question and requested a roll call vote on the first substitute for S.B. 111.
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Uh, I would call the question please. And the question is, shall first substitute Senate Bill one 11 pass rule call vote.
S.B. 157 New Motorboat Distributor Act · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Moves to uncircle third substitute S.B. 210 to consider nicotine amendments.
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Yes. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem, I'd like to if I could, encircle third substitute Senate bill two 10 nicotine amendments. The motion is to Unci third substitute Senate Bill two 10 nicotine amendments.
S.B. 157 New Motorboat Distributor Act · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says a substitute was added on Friday and that the bill addresses problematic pieces of S.B. 61.
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Thank you again, Mr. President Pro tem. This bill, we did, um, add a sub in on Friday. Hopefully if anybody needed to do some reading, they were able to over the weekend. This bill is addressing some of the problematic pieces of what was Senate bill 61.
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Presents S.B. 210, which removes local health department search and seizure authority found unconstitutional, raises tobacco license fees to fund disposal of confiscated e-cigarette products, and increases a criminal penalty for one offense of selling tobacco or e-cigarettes to minors.
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Two years ago there was a court case and it was determined there was a piece that we needed to think more strongly about, about search and seizure. So this bill removes the authorities granted previously to local health departments related to the enforcement of the e-cigarette registry. So search and seizure. Essentially this will take out the pieces that were deemed unconstitutional by the courts. It also does increase tobacco licensing fees to allow that revenue generated to go toward the disposal of confiscated Allegra electronic cigarette products, uh, and increases the criminal penalty for just one of the offenses related to selling tobacco products and e-cigarette products to children. It is the only, the most egregious, which is …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the current $30 tobacco license fee brings in little revenue, disposal costs about $5 per illegal flavored cartridge, and the fee increase would cover disposal, with funds going to DPS and SBI and a grant option for local entities.
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Uh, so the funds are right now, if you can believe to get a tobacco license in this state is $30. And so the funds that are coming in are pretty minimal. Um, and it, it turns out it costs about $5 per cartridge for the flavored vape, uh, cartridges that have been determined to be illegal. So the fees going up are to basically cover that and that's where those, the fees will be generated. And then we'll go into that. I think that we've done it in a, in a relatively smart way, talking with the folks and that it will go to DPS and SBI, but there is a process by which more local entities could get …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says DEQ currently does the disposal, the money will go to DPS, which will pay DEQ, and local health authority products will have a path to disposal and payment.
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So DEQ is actually who is doing the disposal right now, but the money will be going to DPS, uh, and that kind of DPS and SBI space, and they will then be paying DEQ for the disposals. That also leaves a path for if the, um, products are coming through our local health authorities, that there will be paths for it to get to the ultimate disposal and get it paid for.
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Presents S.B. 224, which helps students, including McKinney-Vento students, access birth certificates and related resources.
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This bill allows for a McKinney veto student sport in our high schools to access birth certificates, certificates and help students access them as well so that we can help get them the resources both to the schools and the students that they need.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Moves to delete the entire text of S.B. 170 and replace it with second substitute S.B. 170.
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Uh, so I would, uh, move to delete entitled and body and replace Senate bill one 70 with substitute number two Senate bill one 70.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Explains that the substitute requires families delivering babies to receive education about vitamin K deficiency bleeding and adds language from nurse practitioners about their scope of practice.
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Um, yes. This was actually brought to my attention, um, by the good Senator Stratton when we were in committee that there was some pieces of the wording that did not indicate, uh, what I thought was happening was happening in the way that we wanted it to. And, and that was that every family that was delivering a baby would receive education about what Vitamin K deficiency bleeding is and why it was important. And the language of the bill did not reflect that. So this adds that in. It also added in a little bit of language that came from our nurse practitioner colleagues to make sure that we were accurately reflecting what they could and couldn't do.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Closes debate and calls the question on second substitute S.B. 170.
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Thank you Mr. President ProAm. With that, I would call the question And the question is, shall second substitute Senate bill one 70?
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the bill adds a program and an individual to oversight and treatment services, thanks two people for their help, and says a bill was needed.
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oversight services as well as treatment services. So really all we're adding is a program as well as an individual. And I, I owe, uh, a great debt to both Brian Bean and Isabella Derham for trying to help us navigate this without a bill. But ultimately we did need a bill. Uh, with that I'm open to any questions.
S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says she appreciates the sponsor's work but has heard concerns from constituents about losing accumulated leave, and would vote yes if affected employees were grandfathered in; announces a no vote.
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You. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. I know you're Mr. President, you're the real deal. Sorry about that. It's been a long day. I'll be, it's only got the right word. Pro Tam, I'll be anything I've been called worse. Oh, I, I I wanted to speak a little to this because I, I actually really appreciate what the sponsor is doing, but I've heard from so many folks who are feeling pretty impacted by losing what they've accumulated. And so I would be able to get my vote to a, a yes if there was a grandfathering in of those folks. Um, but just wanted to explain that because I, I can see both sides of this. But …
S.B. 201 Shelter Animal Euthanasia Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Senator Plumb acknowledges the sponsor's work on the bill and says she will support it.
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Thank you, Mr. President and I, I just acknowledge the amount of hard work having run through many of, of these similar spaces that the sponsor and the teams he's working with are, are putting into bettering spaces that are challenging to work in. Uh, I'll be supportive of this bill. Thank you. Seeing no further discussion.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Sen. Plumb presents S.B. 111, which would restrict new non-compete agreements for veterinarians to help address a veterinary shortage, and moves to substitute the bill.
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for me looking at, um, post-employment agreements or non-compete clauses. And the area that I specifically am addressing with this bill is that in veterinary medicine, there is a bill coming from the house, um, that is, was actually just passed unanimously outta the house that deals with human medicine. This bill is very similar to that bill, and in fact, there have been a couple pieces added, um, that would add like a coordination clause, et cetera, that I'd like to adopt that sub. But I think I'll tell you first what this bill does. This bill helps hopefully address the veterinary shortage that we're experiencing in this state. According to Utah State, Utah has 24% fewer veterinarians per …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Sen. Plumb says the substitute clarifies that it does not affect other contract terms such as reimbursement clauses and would coordinate with the human healthcare bill.
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to the sub. You've, I've pretty well addressed it. Like I said, it added clarity that did not touch any other parts of contractual loss. That it would not eliminate those what we call claw back or reimburse clauses. And also that it would, um, coordinate with the healthcare, human healthcare bill should they both pass.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Sen. Plumb responds in summation that the Senate has previously made an exception for broadcasters, that some professions need targeted rules, and that the bill protects the investment in new care providers while preserving free market competition.
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I I do really appreciate all of, of the input and the commentary and I think that the question about why one industry is a, a good and reasonable one, I do think it's worth noting that this body has already done this for one industry. And that is for broadcasters. This was done within the last decade. I know it was Senator hammered at the time. And so I think that we have sort of said that we understand there are uniquenesses about certain spaces that may require their own touch. And I also in trying to think of how would you carve out the specifics of 300 professions and make what applies to one and apply to the …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Presents S.B. 224, which would let school liaisons for homeless students access students' vital records such as birth certificates so they can connect students to services.
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but hopefully impactful little bill that came out of an NCSL, um, homeless Youth Fellowship that I did. And in talking with some of our McKinney-Vento coordinators in the schools, they noted that a problem they had was that they couldn't access their vital records for the students, uh, like the birth certificate. And they need access to that to be able to ensure that they can get the, the students that need help into the programs. And so this bill very simply on, uh, line 47 ads that the whole, uh, liaison from the schools can access that vital record to be able to get them, uh, the services and the resources that they need. And that's all this …
S.B. 169 High School Graduation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Explains that S.B. 169 would let students walk in graduation ceremonies with the institution that grants their diploma, unless there is a security concern.
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uh, homelessness Fellowship that I did. And, and in talking when I came back with the school systems, there was noted to be a piece where some students were not being allowed to participate in the actual graduation ceremony and there was some lacking thought about whether or not, or clarity, I guess, is not thought about whether or not a student should be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies. Sometimes this was because someone had done online schooling. And so there there was a thought that maybe since they didn't have a physical relationship there, sometimes it was that they had gone from one school to another school. And this bill essentially says that, um, barring that there's any …
S.B. 204 Physical Therapy Payment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Introduces the first substitute for S.B. 210 on nicotine amendments, says a substitute from a Woods Cross senator is to be adopted, and says the bill addresses vape and other tobacco sales, which the committee discussed.
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I thank you again. This, this should be very easy. The good Senator from Woods Cross has a sub to introduce on this that I would love to get adopted and then we'll go ahead and circle it for the weekend. Uh, this bill is addressing some of the things we're, um, putting back in place from, uh, vape and other tobacco sales. And our committee had really good discussions about
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Says the committee discussed penalties and that a colleague has an improved substitute, and moves to adopt it.
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And our committee had really good discussions about penalties that were happening. And, um, my, my colleague has I think, an improved substitute to suggest. So I'd like to, if you agree, get that adopted and then circle, uh, third sub Motion. But I, I think, Sorry about that. Motion to, I'll speak to it.
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Thanks those who worked on the change and says she supports the substitute.
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I, I appreciate the effort that went into making sure we were doing the right thing and, and I, I support this, uh, change as well.
S.B. 288 Medicaid Provider Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Sen. Plumb moves to approve the minutes of February 12 and February 18, 2026.
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Yes. So moved. So the motion for this to pass out favorably the minutes or approve the minutes of February 12th and February 18th.
H.B. 97 Medical Waste Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Plumb says it is a real problem when a single drop of medication is given in the ER and then discarded, and she is glad the bill addresses it.
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Uh, I was just gonna note, this is a real thing when we give a single drop of something in the er and then they tell us to throws the thing away. This is a real thing. It's, I'm glad you're addressing this. Thanks.
H.B. 97 Medical Waste Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Plumb moves to favorably recommend second substitute HB 97 to the Senate.
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Uh, yes, Mr. Chair. I would move that we favorably recommend, oh gosh, look at my Eyes. It'd probably be second sub 97, second Sub of house bill 97 out favorably to the Senate.
H.B. 97 Medical Waste Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Plumb says the bill addresses a clear need and she is glad to see it moving. · speaker not certain
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No, like I said, it's definitely a need. I'm glad it's this, uh, bills that's being run.
H.B. 343 Nursing Care Facility Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Asks how many beds are involved in facilities taking licensed beds offline.
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Clunkiest clunkiest thing over here. I'm just curious if we have an idea about how many numbers of beds we're talking about or that have been going offline.
H.B. 343 Nursing Care Facility Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Moves to favorably pass HB 343 out of committee to the full Senate.
▶ Watch at 1:20:18Read what they said
I Would, Senator Plumb, I would move that we favorably forward House Bill 3 43 to the full body of the Senate.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Opposes the bill, saying housing should not discriminate based on sex and that roommates can learn to coexist.
▶ Watch at 1:19:53Read what they said
Thank you, Mr. President Pro Tem. I, I suppose it took to week five for us to get into this space six years in a row. Here we are in this space again. And I'm, I'm, I try so hard to find the way to be sensitive to people's comfort. And I mentioned this, I know when we talked last year about roommates being uncomfortable in general, my college roommates, some of them, one of them is my still dearest friends and some of them are some of the worst memories of my life. The relationships. We didn't share food, taste, we didn't share music taste. We didn't share a lot of different tastes. And yet somehow we figured out …
H.B. 110 Offender Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Moves to encircle first substitute H.B. 87, Animal victim amendments.
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Thank you Mr. President. I'd like to encircle, uh, first substitute house bill 87 if I may please. I think we have a motion to Uncer first substitute house bill 87 Animal victim amendments.
H.B. 110 Offender Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Thanks the presiding officer and says she has an amendment to introduce.
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Uh, thank you again, Mr. President. I do have an amendment that I would like to introduce.
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Introduces a floor amendment, based on committee discussion, that lists the specific offenses involving animals in the bill.
▶ Watch at 1:33:27Read what they said
that I would like to introduce. And this amendment, uh, comes out of some discussions that were had during committee about, I think appropriate concerns that there wasn't enough clarity around what offenses would be included in. Um, this bill, for example, it just mentioned that an animal was involved in a crime and this, uh, amendment has gone ahead and added the actual sections where the offenses are. Um, I would like to make that amendment, if I may. Thank You. I see it on Line Amendment one in your name.
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Explains that the bill sets a process for shelters to place animals held during criminal cases, such as with rescue groups or through forfeiture, to avoid long-term kennel costs, and says she is open to questions.
▶ Watch at 1:34:21Read what they said
Uh, members of the body. This bill was brought to our colleague in the house and now here to us in the Senate to address a concern that has been noted in our shelter systems. And just to paint a picture, if there's an animal that's been involved in, uh, for example, say an abuse situation, and there's going to be a trial the animals held in our shelters. And there's one example that they, uh, cited that where the animal was held for three years. But you can imagine this is a pretty costly undertaking for our shelters. And that kennel could also be filled by the other needs that the community has. So this bill is trying to …
H.B. 87 Animal Crime Victim Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Thanks colleagues for their comments, says she is open to improved language from prosecutors and suggestions, and calls the question.
▶ Watch at 1:39:08Read what they said
Again, as always, I, I appreciate the continued education and the thoughts on this and, and I am very open as I, I believe the house sponsor is as well to, uh, improved language that we could, uh, if we're able to move forward to this on third, that we could certainly incorporate. Uh, I've talked with some prosecutors and, and tried to find suggestions for that language and it's, it's almost a little bit of a, it's a policy call. It's not so much the language, it's a policy call, but very open to any suggestions as well. And with that, I would call the question
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Says she needs a moment to gather herself before asking questions.
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Oh, Mr. Chair presenters. I'm struggling. Uh, anyone else have anything to say while I get it together?
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Asks whether the presenter is a clinical physician or a researcher with a background in practice.
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Thank you. I think a little Kleenex helped me get a long ways. I, I think maybe something that will help me frame, since I haven't been here in the time with Dr. Wilson, would be to understand a little bit, is this a clinical physician? Is this a PhD physician? Just so I can relate to the background, I don't know if Dr. Wilson would like to answer that or if you'd like to answer that. Is this someone who actually provides, provides care for patients?
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Says the explanation helps her frame the issue from the practice side.
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That that helps me frame that out. Bring practice side. Yeah, exactly. That helps me frame that out.
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Describes her experience as a physician, explains existing medical grounds for declining care, and expresses concern that the bill could open gaps allowing refusals based on personal characteristics or conduct; urges the committee not to move the bill forward.
▶ Watch at 1:17:22Read what they said
Well, and also helps me perhaps address some of the disconnects that I'm feeling with this because, and as you can tell, I had a pretty visceral reaction to this, and the implication that people providing certain kinds of care have lower morals or ethics is a challenge to somebody who's done this for two and a half decades. Right? So I think that one of the things that I would really like to, to bring up if I could, is that right now in, in my practice and in the practice of many of the physicians I know, and I'll tell you, I I took a straw poll, which is certainly not scientific, but of all the physicians I …
S.B. 174 Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Says there is considerable work to do, especially on the insurance provisions.
▶ Watch at 1:40:13Read what they said
Uh, yeah, I think that there's a ton of work to be done, especially the insurance company piece part. So I, I look forward to what those conversations are.
S.B. 76 Residential Rental Payment Reporting Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Sen. Plumb introduced the bill to help first-time home buyers by letting landlords offer reporting of on-time rent payments, and described the substitute changing the requirement from shall to may, with optional fees and enrollment limits.
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Alright. Members of the committee, I don't know why this room is so nervy, but it is, um, I'm here today to talk about a bill that we had come up with and with the concept of helping first time home buyers move forward. Something we talk a lot about Up here. Lemme just, uh, I, I, I think as your intern, just hand us a handout. Is this something you want us to pass on? Committee, please. If you can just hand it to the, we're gonna have a little credit score school while we're at it this morning. And, and this bill really did come from a place of trying to help, uh, Utahans become first time home …
S.B. 76 Residential Rental Payment Reporting Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the substitute to may gives the bill more footing and that rent reporting could also be good for landlords.
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It essentially does. I, I really just am hopeful that, um, the addition of the sub, uh, moving it to May gives us a little more footing, uh, to do this. I also think it's good for landlords, if you have a tenant that you can look and see they've been making all of their payments, that's actually really good for landlords too. Okay. So with that, I would, if I could move the sub.
S.B. 76 Residential Rental Payment Reporting Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Sen. Plumb responded that the bill sets up a pathway, that establishing routine norms can help, and that she understands the concern.
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If I'm, am I mis Yeah, please. I, I hear you. I, I don't see it that way, but I hear you. I think that a lot of times, or sometimes even, we need to break seals on things and, and make things, norms or make things routine. But I also, I, I see what you're saying and I, I, I can see that angle.
S.B. 76 Residential Rental Payment Reporting Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Sen. Plumb appreciated the dialogue on the bill, said there is work to do to support tenants and understand landlords, and said keeping the bill alive in conversations is valuable.
▶ Watch at 1:11:51Read what they said
No, I, I appreciate the opportunity to have these conversations and the dialogues and, and I think that, um, we have a lot of work to do in our communities in terms of supporting our, our, our tenants. I understand the landlord side of it too. So I think that, um, messaging out of the legislature that shows that we're actually, um, pro all of the parties is something that can be great. And keeping this potentially alive in conversations happening is, is part of that. So I, I appreciate the opportunity for the dialogue to have happened.
S.B. 125 Theft Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Moves to recirculate S.B. 102, Animal Control First Responder Amendments.
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Thank you, Mr. President Proti, I'd like to make a motion to encircle Senate bill 1 0 2 And the motion is to encircle Senate Bill 1 0 2, animal Control First Responder Amendments.
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents S.B. 102 as leveling the playing field for animal control officers as first responders, citing support from fire chiefs, LELC, and animal control groups, and asks for passage.
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Thank you Mr. President Pro tem and members of the body. We, we had, um, I think some informative discussions about this bill when we ran it through second reading and there were some concerns raised that I wanted to address. So I talked with our, uh, fire Chiefs Association folks, our LELC folks, and they remain in support of this bill. There's, uh, animal control associations from across the state, from Quent to Sandy to Salt Lake. And this bill essentially just kind of levels the playing field a little bit for our true first responders. Those are our, our fire department, our EMS, our law, uh, enforcement officers, and our animal control officers. And my hope is that …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Responds that animal control officers complete specific post training, often control dangerous animals before EMTs or law enforcement enter, and that highway personnel viewed them as first responders.
▶ Watch at 1:23:35Read what they said
Plumb, that would put them in the same kind of league as it were. So many of them do go through post trainings. There's specific post classes that are geared towards the work that they do. And, and I will tell you that from my personal experience, when there is a situation where there's a dangerous animal and you arrive, EMT does not go in until it's been controlled by animal control. Law enforcement sometimes doesn't even go in either. And I think it is a very specific skillset that they are the ones who are directed to be the one to control that dangerous animal in that event. And what this does is essentially says amongst first responders, everyone …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Responds that animal control officers protect humans at scenes with dangerous animals, that the bill does not elevate animals above people, and that fire chiefs and LELC support it.
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And in response, I absolutely understand, especially given my, uh, my leanings, that the tendency would be to think perhaps that it was about elevating, uh, something up to be in the, in the human sphere. But to me, these folks provide the safety layer. If there's, if there's a vicious animal on scene, they are keeping family members, neighbors, law enforcement, EMT, they are actually there to protect the humans. And oftentimes that is resulting, you know, in something that is not the ideal outcome, maybe, I suppose depending on what you're seeing. But, uh, just to assure that my intent is, is certainly not to elevate above a human response, just to acknowledge that this response is crucial, …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Thanks colleagues for the discussion and calls the question.
▶ Watch at 1:26:46Read what they said
No, I, uh, like I said, I appreciate, uh, all the conversations and, and would call the question.
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Thanks the presenters and says the explanations were interesting and made sense to her, though she does not claim deep knowledge of the subject.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair and, and folks that have spoken and to the presenters. It's, it's fascinating to me when you try to digest things that are, you know, you have a little bit of a framework of information on or knowledge on, but you don't, I don't would profess to have deep knowledge here And I feel better about a gold back something than a Bitcoin something. Right? A a an actual piece of something that has value to it. But I also think it's interesting just for my own self to see how when I hear you two speak about it, I can see the, the sense, the logic. Now, whether or not once you to agree with …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Moves that HB 195 first substitute be forwarded to the full Senate favorably.
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So short, I have to push with the, um, let's see. I gotta get up to my thing. Uh, with that being said, I would like to make a motion that we vote, hang on. It's gonna be here. There's only how many committees we had today, Hpb 1 95. 1 95, substitute one, substitute one, uh, forward to the full body of the Senate favorably, please.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb greeted the committee and prepared to present the bill.
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Morning. I think I tucked. Yes. There it is. There's the phone. Gimme one sec.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the bill aims to improve services for students affected by dyslexia and to expand who can help with assessments, and that a substitute from Rep. Defay would be added.
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Okay. Well, and it's actually perfect timing. Uh, when Representative Defay comes, uh, our bills are, are working in tandem and parallel, so that will be great. Alright. All right. I like running between committees. Hi. Hi again. Um, house HHS the new and far less terrifying HHS than my previous iterations in front of this committee. This bill came together over almost a year. Uh, some folks reached out after the last session and said, uh, we'd really like to look at how to address our kids' reading, especially in the dyslexia space. And boy, there are a lot of advocates and there are a lot of voices and parents and clinicians and teachers and a lot of folks …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the substitute would be adopted later in the meeting.
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Just so we're all clear? Uh, Well, I was just about to. Okay. It Was right on the cusp. You can speak to it, but we adopted it Again, but we'll adopt it later. Okay.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb described the substitute's additions defining dyslexia diagnosis and screening, protections for educators who refer students for screening, and allowing licensed professionals to assess within their scope of practice.
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Yes. And then with some additions from her kind of workings in the space, we were going to add what a diagnosis, um, of dyslexia is and what it is not as well as including that a diagnosis is not a screening, it's not a recommendation from an educational professional to screen a student or the results of a diagnostic assessment. It defines what a screening is, and then provides that. If an educational professional recommends or refers a student for a dyslexia screening, neither the school district or charter school could discipline them for this. So again, these are kind of building blocks on moving up and I learned a lot from, especially speaking with the parents, that getting …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb said dyslexia assessments are often done in schools by some teachers, and outside evaluations can cost about $3,000.
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Okay. My understanding from going through this process is it is very often done in the schools and that there are, um, not every teacher does it, but there are some who do. There are also spaces where you can go to pay. Uh, one of my colleagues in the Senate, I think, believe it costs $3,000 to have it done outside of a school setting. So it is a little, it's challenging for folks. Um, but I, I may maybe as you present, you can tell a little more too.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the bill is meant to let qualified professionals such as therapists assess within their scope, and that a list of practitioners may have been removed from the bill.
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Well, and I think didn't, do we have a whole list of them there? So therapists, family therapists, for example, folks who are already potentially working with kiddos who are struggling in school, who have been taught how to do this. Let me make sure. I think that we, did we have a list? I don't, I'm not seeing, you know how sometimes you can't remember if you cut the list out? I think we may have cut the list out. I'm not seeing So, because we wanted it to be more about someone having the qualifications of knowing how to do it with it being allowed within their scope as opposed to being so prescriptive that we would eliminate …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb said the substitute adds good pieces to the bill passed by the Senate and supports it.
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These are, I think, great pieces to add to the, the bill that we passed out of the Senate and, and I support it thoroughly.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb waived summation and thanked the committee for helping move the bill.
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to the sponsor for final word. Oh, Uh, waive summation, but with thanks for, for helping usher this along.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Sen. Plumb presents S.B. 127 to support pediatric readiness at hospitals statewide and says the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network is moving to its own 501(c)(3) with its funding following it.
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Alright, I would love that. SB 1 27. Doing a quick text up now for the couple of folks to join online, uh, about this bill. So, Senate Bill 1 27 is something that is pretty near and dear to my heart, working in a pediatric emergency department and working with folks who truly care about pediatric care across this state. Um, as I've watched the evolution in my career, you know, 2000 early two thousands felt like nearly every sick or or or injured kiddo ended up coming up to Primary Children's, to Salt Lake City. And in time you start to take a look at that and you realize, boy, that's really disruptive. You, you take families away …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Waives most of her closing remarks, thanks the witnesses, and says hospitals want to improve pediatric care.
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Well, um, I, I, I will waive most of it, but again, with gratitude for Eric showing up in a poo bear tie and, and the folks speaking, uh, as well to the support the bill, uh, I think I know in fact that every hospital in the state wants to do Best Buy Kids. And anything we can do to help them do that just feels that much better.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Sponsor says the bill clarifies that a physician cannot be punished for either participating or not participating in an execution, and offers to answer questions.
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This bill, uh, was amended I think, to be improved in our last reading and this bill makes the simple, uh, clarification that a physician can be punished for, cannot be punished. Excuse me, for either participating in an execution or not participating in an execution. I think that line at, at the taking of a life is something that's very valuable to all of us and I am certainly open to any questions if anyone would like to talk further.
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Thanks the presiding officer and says the bill establishes a purple alert.
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Senator Plumb. Senator Plumb, Thank you again, Mr. President Pro Tem. This bill establishes a purple alert.
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Sponsor says she worked with DPS, concerned parents, and community groups to set up a system for rare but critical situations involving people who communicate and exist differently, and opens the floor to questions.
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We worked hard with our DPS colleagues, with our concerned parents and, and community groups to have a system put in place for those not often but critical situations where someone who communicates differently and perhaps exists differently in the world needs a little extra attention and coordination in in looking out for them. Uh, with that I am open to any questions.
S.B. 124 Child Welfare Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Says the bill addresses urgent needs in child welfare, praises Escamilla's work, and states she will vote yes.
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Senator Plumb. Thank You Mr. President ProAm. I just wanted to speak to the dire need for tools to help the child welfare space and to help the people who care about the safety and welfare of kids and I the amount of work that has gone into this and the amount of thought. I know this is a difficult space, but I'm really grateful for the work that Senator Escamilla has put into it. And with that, I'm a yes.
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Discusses whether the substitute bill can be moved and mentions language suggestions made with stakeholders. · speaker not certain
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So mental health services and higher education. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This big room. I tell you what, it's Now Gets you a little nervous. Now, Is this a substitute we have online? Um, it should be, or is it already? Did we move the substitute before? I don't think we did. I'm trying to, hang on a second. Let me pull up the, the, there is a first substitute that had some language clarifications and now in my head I'm, we wouldn't, yeah, we wouldn't have had an opport. Would we have had an opportunity to move it? I'm, I'm trying to think. We wouldn't have, if this is the committee, we wouldn't have had an opportunity, so, right. …
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Presents the substitute bill, which would create a peer coaching mental health counseling grant, reallocate $1.5 million, and let each campus choose its approach.
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Thank you. I will present to that bill and also have, um, had passed around to you an LRG prepared kind of bill analysis and way to summarize, um, what this bill is wanting to do. And, and by way of explaining how I ended up even in this con having this conversation with you is, um, I teach in higher education Professor Plum, if you can believe that's a real thing, but it, I actually do. Uh, and so I have a, a lot of concern and, and passion for how students are doing and what their wellness looks like, and had kind of probed around into ways that we might be able to help different campuses and different …
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says the bill is not meant to end Trula, that campuses where it works would keep their contracts, and that other campuses would get funding to build their own peer programs.
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Absolutely not. That is 100% not the goal. Um, I think that there are spaces, as, as you've heard here at SUU in particular, is one campus that it seems has been really benefited by this. And, and I think that I want that to carry on, but I also want the spaces that aren't receiving that to have a way to potentially have that sort of peer supportive services come in. And so the way I would see it, I, I'm not master of the universe, but the way I would see it is that in the campuses where it's doing great, awesome, we just go forward and keep those contracts going and keep those true programs going. And …
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Explains that the program has not been the best fit at every campus and that funding would let those campuses use Trula or their own model.
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I'm saying that from the conversations, and it's so interesting to me that none of the conversation pieces came up as people to, to speak about it, but that it hasn't necessarily been the best fit. Not by any fault necessarily of anyone's, but you don't always have the best fit with one program in 16 spaces, regardless of what that may be. And so, um, what the stories people have shared with me is there are spaces like with everything where a program just hits all the, the nails and there are spaces where it hasn't. And in those spaces where it's not, I would like there to be some funding available for those campuses to be able to …
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says there is a wide need for mental health services and that the program works well at Southern Utah University but not at every campus.
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Exactly what you're getting at and why that has not been prioritized by our mental health system. I don't have an answer there for you either, but I, I agree with you that there is, there's a pretty wide need and, and like I said, I think SUU is an example of where this particular program has really hit the nail on the head and is is doing great work. It isn't like that everywhere though, is, that's kind of where I was coming at this from the angle of,
S.B. 118 Mental Health Services in Higher Education · Senate Education Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says there is more to discuss on the bill and that she will talk with others about adding funding for mental health services.
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No, I, I, I think that I appreciate that because I think there's clearly more depth to get into here. And, and I think I have some conversations to have as well with other folks to be like, had you thought about this? Had you thought about that? What about this consideration? So maybe I've lit Ophir on all of you to help get some more funding into those, those spaces to help with the mental health of our youth. 'cause I think we all know how crucial it is. And, and this has been valuable, so I appreciate that. Yeah. We're, we're messing with people's lives that, you know, suicidal and all kinds of things, and yeah, I just …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Presents S.B. 80, saying it addresses whether physicians can be penalized for declining to take part in a state-sponsored execution, and that protections should exist when a life is taken.
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Um, this bill has been something that touches on I think a lot of emotions and ethical kind of questions that folks in healthcare have to deal with. And it was initially brought to my attention with a bill that was being run last year, and it was a question raised about could a physician be punished or penalized for not participating in an execution or a state sponsored execution? And so this bill was drafted with the hope that we could have that discussion about what does it mean to have a line where your profession would require you to take a life? And this bill came to be, we had some, I think, thoughtful and critical discussions in …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Says she appreciates the discussion and views the amendment as a friendly one.
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Like I, I really do appreciate the dialogue that has gone into this and the thoughtfulness and I see that as, as a friendly amendment and, and truly do appreciate and understand why it's important to put that there too.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Thanks colleagues for the dialogue and the improvements to the bill, and calls the question.
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No. With that I, I appreciate the, the dialogue and the improvement in the bill and, and I would call the question
S.B. 86 Firearm Safe Harbor Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Thanks the presiding officer and begins speaking on Second Substitute SB 98, Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. Um, this bill is actually something I'm, I'm really kind of excited about Utah moving forward in the space of
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Sen. Plumb presents S.B. 98, which sets up a recovery ready workplace pathway within the Department of Health and Human Services, describes a funding mechanism, and says she worked on it with Rep. Clancy.
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of excited about Utah moving forward in the space of a recovery ready workplace is a place that supports with kind of some unique nuances, the needs of people who are coming through their substance use disorder space, reentering the world and kind of rejoining life. We know from dealing in this space that there's a process of, first you come out into recovery, then you work through your recovery, and as you're getting better, you're rejoining other spaces of your life, you're reintegrating with your family. If you weren't there, you're getting back into the workplace. And as you're doing, so, if there are particular spaces where there are a lot of folks in recovery, the best thing we …
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Sen. Plumb moves that second substitute S.B. 98 be read for a third time and asks for a roll call vote.
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Thank you, Mr. President ProAm. I'd call the question And the question is, shall second substitute Senate bill 98? Be read for a third time. Roll call vote.
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Presents S.B. 128, saying it has broad support, was prompted by a family's concern about a missing vulnerable person, sets up alert procedures for vulnerable individuals while limiting over-alerting, and was developed with fire, police, DPS, and disability community input.
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Thank you Mr. President Pro Tem. I I promise I will remain seated after this and I appreciate the body. Um, this bill is one that has a ton of support from all sorts of different elements. It was brought to me by some family members who were concerned after, you know, one of our more unique kind of individuals within the community had gone missing. And we have some alerts that address this sort of process. We have a silver alert, for example, if we have one of our senior citizen, uh, that is needing some assistance, we have an Amber alert that's a statewide alert if there's a, a child that is in danger. And we need to …
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Discusses the difference between the homestead and car value exemptions and how the bill's vehicle exemption compares.
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So I have an exemptions act. I don't know, is this Homestead exemption or This is car value exemption. CarVal. Okay. We have different exemptions then. Okay. Well, I was gonna say maybe we could have collaborated. Maybe we still can. Yeah, maybe. Okay.
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Explains that the bill raises the motor vehicle exemption from $3,000 to $15,000 and allows an unlimited exemption for a vehicle modified for a disability, citing other states and used car prices.
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Well thank you Mr. Chair. And, uh, members of the committee Is this room's always a little intimidating with the size of it, but, uh, it's got a good vibe today, so I'm feeling good about it. Um, I bring this bill before you today after, um, uh, being contacted by a constituent. And then when I started talking with more folks about it, more people kind of chimed in about it. And it pertains to the amount of, uh, one's car, personal car value that they can exempt in a bankruptcy proceeding or when someone's trying to collect a debt. And it turns out that, as you can see in this bill, that Utah allows for, uh, a motor …
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says the $3,000 figure has not changed for years.
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Oh goodness. I do remember when we initially started looking at it. Uh, LRGC had told me the time. It's, it's been years and years and years. Okay.
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Explains that the two disability provisions are tied together through the walking-ability definition.
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Okay. So the first was that their, uh, the individual or the individual's dependent meets the definition, uh, such as which limits the impaired or impairs the ability to walk.
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says the $15,000 figure came from comparing other states and used car prices, is open to a lower number and suggestions, and suggests a staged increase like the one used for small claims.
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And we did kind of have that too, right? Like looking at the other numbers around us and, and looking at what was out there. I I, I think it's a reasonable number looking at the other states, but I also understand if people would be more comfortable with a little bit of a haircut there. Um, and I'm open to, you know, suggestions or thoughts, um, from the community. Maybe like a, a staging of it goes up to this and then in five years it'll go to another, you know, with, with inflation. And we did that for small claims court, we kind of took a staged approach to when the small claims limit went up. But we …
S.B. 143 Utah Exemptions Act Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says he is open to continuing the discussion and that drafters must consider how a law could be circumvented.
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Let's continue that dialogue because I'm completely open to that concept. And I, it's interesting because when you're, when you're working with drafters on bills, you don't wanna immediately go to the ways that you assume people can beat a law, but you have to, right? Like you have to think about the ways, well, where would be the, where would be the, I I try to assume good intent as much as I can, but I also know that there's not always that, so we do have to consider it. So yeah. Have to be a little devious in your thinking.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Sen. Plumb presented the bill, saying it bars health plans from basing or denying anesthesia payment solely on a time limit, citing patient safety concerns about a policy by a health insurer.
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Thank you for having me. I came from Senate judiciary and I anticipated this room to be more intimidating. This is a nice little kind Of calm No, we're like just calm. End of the week. We're nice and chill over here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, come on y'all. I love it. Flipping The scripts. We're just excited about anesthesia over here. Yeah. Awesome. Let me just quick get this, you know, I didn't realize when I navigated today as Princess Leia that it would be quite as hard to carry things. So gimme one second to pull this one up. So first we're gonna talk about Senate Bill 50. Correct. Okay. So Senate Bill 50, um, came out of …
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said she had missed the end of the earlier statement and explained the bill prohibits a health plan from denying anesthesia payment based only on a preset time limit.
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I sure. Kind of missed the end of it. Okay. So this, essentially what the bill does is it prohibits a health plan from denying payment for anesthesia services based only on a preset time limitation.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said the bill means procedures cannot be required to finish in set times and that payment should be based on what is best for the patient and the outcome.
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So it essentially says, yes, we cannot make it so that everyone has to do an appendectomy in 20 minutes or a tonsillectomy in seven minutes, or it, it has to be based on what's best and what the outcome is for the patient, not just on time.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said she did not know about bleeding but that redheads metabolize some drugs more quickly and may need larger pain medication and anesthesia doses.
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I'm telling you, I don't know about the bleed easier, but they, an they, uh, metabolize some drugs like nobody else. You might be able to speak into it from both surgeon and patient perspective, but red heads will go through medications like nobody understands why, but they cut through medications quicker. They need more pain meds, they need bigger anesthesia doses. It's a, it's a thing.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Presents SB 87, which allows expired naloxone to be supplied up to two years past its expiration date, citing research on naloxone stability, cost savings, and the bill's origins from a multistate meeting.
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Correct. Okay. Go ahead. Alright, so the handouts that you all received, just as, uh, by way of description, there is a group of students who are engaged with civic engagement and wanted to put together some informational pieces on a bill that policy and public health were overlapping. So there a group with, with, uh, Salt Lake City, I'm totally spacing on their name. It'll come to us. Um, they work with Representative Romero as well and with the Salt Lake City, uh, kind of municipality space. So thanks to them for the handout that came around. Um, and I wanna tell you a little bit of where this bill came from. So there was a group, uh, brought …
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says the bill covers both community and medical settings, explains prescribing, dispensing, and furnishing terms, and notes liability protection for intermediaries like law enforcement agencies.
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It does. And and the reason that that's important because there's a line in here where it talks about, uh, may prescribe or dispense. So prescribe is typically, um, writing it dispense is what the pharmacist does. Furnish is what any one of us would do that's a non, uh, pharmacist. When we would hand a medication to somebody, it's important to have all of those pieces in there because a lot of the spaces where people are receiving naloxone do have medical oversight or involvement. So I have a clinic downtown where we see people for wound care and to try to help them find their way onto recovery. I'm there, uh, all the kits that I have have …
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says organizations could keep their own policies or review them through quality processes, leaving the decision to each organization.
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So, so their policy is that they cannot use expired medications, then the law if, if, if passed says this is okay up to this, this amount of the 24 months. Um, what's the impacts of that? Uh, the way I would see it is that they have two choices. They can either say we feel good about our policy. We have, you know, been on board with, for X amount of time that we've been doing it, we're gonna stick with our policy. And they could certainly repurchase every, you know, 12 to 14 months that their kits were coming up expired. Or they could work through whatever their quality assurance, quality improvement process is to see if their …
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says the bill does not change product availability or distribution, only liability.
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But this doesn't change, um, the, the availability or the, the ways that the companies send medications to anyone. It's, it's just the policy that liability would be different.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Describes grant-funded kits expiring and says she advises keeping expired kits alongside updated ones, since naloxone is not harmful when expired.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I think also that it, my hope is, and I've watched this happen in a couple of settings, you know, law enforcement agencies maybe got a grant and they bought Naloxone and they had it, their officers trained and they were carrying it and they maybe used it a couple times. And then the grant funds ran out and the kits expired and they didn't have any more money. And so they just were no longer able to stock the Naloxone. And, and that's kind of a shame. Um, and so knowing, especially like I have seen these thousands of kits that have expired, it, it feels like we might actually be able to get further out …
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says she has not seen a case of someone refusing to use an outdated medication. · speaker not certain
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I sure haven't. I I haven't either. I sure Haven't. Surprised that doesn't happen more often.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Thanks the committee and says she believes the bill will continue to save lives and money.
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No, I, I appreciate all the, the insight and, and thank you. I'm gonna remember that piece, uh, from Representative Ward to add. I, I just, like I said, when I finished, I really believe this will continue to save lives as well as, as save monies. So, And to the important Thank you.
H.B. 156 Blood Transfusion Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Asked the sponsor how the bill might affect people's willingness to donate blood in general.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. To, to the presenter. We've had some really good conversations about this bill and, um, being in healthcare, there's these kind of weighing sides of things, and I think one of the things I've talked to you, expressed to you about is my concern that what this does to the potential for people to donate in general, to feel comfortable with the need for blood. Well, I don't need to donate. People will just bring their own blood. And a kind of a changing mindset around it. I I just wondered maybe if you would share some of your thoughts on that, like, as we've talked about that. It's, it's a piece I've really struggled to …
H.B. 156 Blood Transfusion Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Spoke on the motion, expressing concerns about added workload, separate testing, the safety of the blood supply, and the value of patient freedom in medical decisions.
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As I kind of referenced before there, there's so much in this that, that my head and heart back and forth on, and without hopefully sounding dramatic, I I may be one of the only people in here that's actually held a, a, a, a unit of blood that is about to go into somebody's body, a child's body and save their life. So the, the preciousness of this is by no means lost on me. I just, I can't get to the point where I see the increased workload, separate fridges, separate testing for, for autologous blood. That's sometimes 50% of it's not used. The, the burden on the system and, and the fear that I have that there …
H.B. 71 Health Provider Directory and Access Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said the single case agreement exception is helpful for people seeking mental health care and that the bill appears well thought out.
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Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I wanted to, when, uh, good representative mentioned, excuse me, a single case exemption exception, I lit off a light bulb for me because I know that of multiple cases with folks seeking mental health care, where this truly has been a lifesaver, and this is just even, you know, local in your everyday existence. And I think that it is a built in valve, uh, to allow for better care for people sometimes in complex and complicated situations. Um, as with anything in health, there are nuances and you want the right person with the, the right person to be helping someone take care of their issues. And so I think that this …
H.B. 209 Voting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 24) · Feb 12, 2026
Conveys constituent feedback that the body should avoid barriers to voting such as fees or repeated re-registration requirements, and that the system should support residents.
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Thank you, Mr. President. I, I wanted to convey some of the feedback that has come to me from emails and from constituents. And that is that this body sometimes works on bills that don't help them feel heard or don't feel like they resonate with them. And I think that when we imply that there's something wrong with our election system, while I say that, I think we should continue to work towards excellence and towards improvements. I I am actually proud of our voting system and the results here. My understanding of that audit was there was possibly one person registered, but that that person hadn't voted. Again, there's back and forth on those numbers. But for us …
S.B. 155 Unclaimed Property Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 23) · Feb 11, 2026
Says a one-word change was made in the bill and that recircling it is fine if needed.
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Yes. The, oh no, I'm sorry. I ma may have made a mistake then this was just a one word change in this bill, so if we need to recircle it, that's okay too.
S.B. 155 Unclaimed Property Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 23) · Feb 11, 2026
Says the bill involves only a one-word change and that the bill can be recircled if needed. · speaker not certain
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Yes. The, oh no, I'm sorry. I ma may have made a mistake then this was just a one word change in this bill, so if we need to recircle it, that's okay too. No, go ahead. If you got an amendment, let's go ahead and place It. Oh no, not an amendment. Just the bill is a, a small change. The bill itself is a small change. Sorry if I misrepresented that.
S.B. 155 Unclaimed Property Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 23) · Feb 11, 2026
Clarifies that no amendment is being offered and that the bill itself is a small change.
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It. Oh no, not an amendment. Just the bill is a, a small change. The bill itself is a small change. Sorry if I misrepresented that.
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Plumb presents the bill as a step to expand services for students who may struggle with reading or have dyslexia, broadening who can perform assessments and adding language on school acknowledgment and diagnostics.
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Thank you Mr. President. Uh, with the sprint Back to my chair. This bill that we talked about yesterday is, uh, kind of a seal break on starting to increase the services that we are getting to our students who may have struggles with the way they read and may have concerns they have dyslexia. It expands the kind of definition and, uh, breadth of who is allowed to perform these assessments. It also allows some, um, kind of more language about schools acknowledging these assessments and some clarity around diagnostics. Um, it's been broadly supported and like I said, it's maybe a little bit of a small nip, but I think it's an important step. And with that, I'm …
S.B. 104 School Medication Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Sen. Plumb presented S.B. 104 as a cleanup bill that brings together school medication policies to add uniformity, efficiency, and transparency for schools administering medications to students.
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where I've seen medications in schools policy over the last couple of years. And it felt important to bring them together and to have there be uniformity to help with both efficiency as well as transparency in our settings where schools are being, uh, asked to administer medications to students in those critical moments. Uh, it really is a bit of a cleanup bill just to put it all together and get that efficiency placed. With that, I'm open to any questions. Thank you
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
As sponsor, Sen. Plumb said she missed the earlier vote on the bill, which would add two health-expertise voices to the homeless services board. After talking with a former coordinator and the governor's office, she said the board had been cut from 29 to 11 members and each seat is important, so she asked that the bill pass without changes.
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Thank you. Uh, this bill was circled just a little bit earlier today. Apologies I was not on the floor when it came up. This bill is one that we discussed yesterday about adding two voices of subject matter expertise around health in the homeless, uh, services board space. I appreciated the feedback from my colleagues yesterday and dove in to understand if there was possibly a spot we could switch out with. Spoke with a former coordinator of the Office of Homeless Services, Senator, former Senator Niederhauser. Spoke with the governor's office and, and realized that it had, that board had actually been cut down from 29 to 11 and they really felt that every voice that was on …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Says the program is already funded and supported by the Hospitals Association, EMS and DPS, that program and EMS staff did not expect an increased load on emergency departments or freestanding ERs, and that the bill will help care for kids statewide.
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Thank you Mr. President. Uh, we discussed this bill yesterday and there had been some good questions about how we would be certain we weren't putting too much increased workload on our, uh, emergency departments and facilities. I was able to check in with the program folks as well as the EMS folks and they did not feel there would be an increased load, especially on our freestanding ERs that they could rely on what was already happening in their main programs. Uh, it is a, a very already funded program. It's supported by the Hospitals Association as well as by our EMS and DPS folks. And I feel really, really good about the fact that it will help us …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Presents S.B. 127 as a way to codify pediatric readiness standards for emergency care across the state, building on existing trauma network work, and says it carries a zero fiscal note.
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There we go. Um, this is a bill that came together working with DPS, our EMS and EMSC, uh, folks from around the state in combination with the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network and ER readiness folks as well. And the goal with this bill is to codify what's essentially already happening across our state. And that is, is the attempt to provide the best care possible for our kids so that someone who happens to be injured or ill here in Salt Lake City, has the same level of pediatric readiness there for them when they get there, as they would in, uh, Vernal or they would in Cedar, or they would in any other sort of space where they're …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Explains that the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network is becoming an independent nonprofit and that its existing appropriation is transferring to it.
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Thank you Mr. President and I'm glad you brought that up. 'cause I had meant to clarify that the UPTN, Utah Pediatric Trauma Network has an ongoing appropriation and it's had an existence within Primary Children's, uh, the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network. And that made some other facilities, um, a little bit less than comfortable feeling like perhaps there was an association with one healthcare provider setting. And so what's happening, UPTN is coming out into its own not-for-profit space, not affiliated with any one hospital system or organization. And that money is just transferring over into that new not-for-profit, same people, but now truly separated.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the funding goes to the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network, which asked for an independent identity, so the funding was included in the bill.
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Uh, so it's money that's going to the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network. And since this bill was so adjacent to that and there had been requests from within the PRI rider networks around the state that it had a true independent identity, we put this piece in as well. So it's not that this funding is going to fund the pediatric readiness, it's that they work right there together and they were adjacent and germane enough that we put it in here.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the funds are already allocated to the trauma network, which is changing its identity to a nonprofit, so they are not new funds.
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Fund? No, these funds are, sorry, I keep jumping the gun on you, Mr. President. Sorry about that. These funds are already allocated to the UPTN through an appropriation process here, and the UPTN is just changing its identity to become a not-for-profit. So this was the clarity that those funds are going with them. They're not new funds, it's just a bit of a new identity for that UPTN.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Responds that only 24-hour emergency departments would be covered and offers to provide more detail if the bill passes second reading.
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Senator Plumb? No, and I, I think that's an interesting question. When, when this, because Senator asked me about it, my mind started doing the gymnastics about who I may have heard from over the last 20 years that would be of open 24 7. And to my knowledge as well as to the folks I very quickly curbside consulted, which includes our EMS and EMSC directors, uh, for the statewide efforts. It is only in emergency department settings that are 24 hour facilities. Obviously hospitals are, but that provide emergency or urgent care. 24 hour facilities are only those labeled as emergency departments. Um, I'm also certainly willing to, uh, explore further if we are to get this past …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Thanks colleagues for the discussion and says she would return to undo any unintended effects if any are found.
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As, as always, I do appreciate the additional levels of thinking that comes out when we talk about things on the floor. I, I really do feel like if there's anything I know about our healthcare providers and facilities around the state is that they want to do everything they can when it comes to caring for kids. And they're always so grateful for any of the options that are made available to them. And I really do, knowing, having watched this over the last decade or so, I know the commitment of the people who are educating as well. So if by chance we did uncover something, I would always be willing to come back and undo things that …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Presents S.B. 81, which expands who can perform dyslexia assessments so school districts can get more help providing dyslexia services, and says amendments reflect stakeholder feedback.
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This bill came together working with concerned parents as well as educators and others in the field that's relevant to testing kids for dyslexia. And it's a small step forward, but I think it's an important step and, and what it does is it expands kind of the circle of who can perform dyslexia assessments and then that in turn gives the school districts additional help in who they can then treat or support with what they may need for dyslexia services. There are a couple substitutes that have been accepted and that was from coming along the way, making sure that we were taking the feedback from stakeholders. And at this point I, I feel like I said it's …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the bill came about after several sessions of her work on the issue.
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Thank you Mr. President. This bill came to be after the last couple of sessions where I have worked on
S.B. 104 School Medication Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Presents S.B. 104, which puts several school medications, including epinephrine, naloxone, glucagon, and albuterol, under one code section and keeps the existing shall and may requirements, then opens for questions.
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individual medications in schools and figuring out the best way to make sure that folks were trained and that data was tracked and it came, became pretty clear that we needed to clean up the code a little bit. There were enough variations that made it so that there just wasn't consistency. This bill essentially takes those medications like epinephrine, naloxone, glucagon, uh, albuterol, and puts them all into one code, which I think increases, uh, efficiency as well as transparency of note. It is interesting, um, that there is only one of the medications that is a shall, that is epinephrine. The rest of them are all May. I did leave that intact. With that, I'm open to any …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Presents S.B. 49 on natural organic reduction, describes the second substitute's limits to funeral directors and its marker and disclosure requirements for soil deposited on private property.
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I know that this bill has brought out many emotions and also many conversations. And, and if you would've told me when I ran for office in 2022, that I would be thinking as much about end of life from this side, uh, I would've called you names, um, because I didn't see it coming. I spend my day slash night job trying to make sure that people do stay alive, especially our, our kids and our youth. And I didn't know a whole lot about what happens for that final rest for each of us. I'd been to plenty of funerals. I've, you know, said goodbye to loved ones over the years. And I had never really formed strong …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Moves to substitute the second substitute for the pending version of the bill.
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Your building. I would like to substitute the second, if I could, if I could delete entitle and body, uh, substitute one and replace it with substitute two. Mr. President,
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Explains that the removable container is meant to be something that can go with the property if it changes hands, such as an above-ground box, and says she is open to more detail.
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So I, I pictured a couple different versions knowing that it's soil and people may want to grow something. I pictured kind of an above ground flower box. I also pictured not something entirely different from what CRE remains or the remains of cremation come in that could be taken with someone when there's a transfer of, of ownership of the property. If there's more granularity needed to that description, I, I'm certainly open to that. But I pictured something that would take a soil and leave it in a way that made it so when the property changed hands, it could go with. So the next owner, if they had issues with that, didn't have to, didn't have to …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Confirms that on private property the soil is intended to be kept in a container that can be removed. · speaker not certain
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Senator Plumb? Correct on private properties. I, I was intending, uh, that, or the bill too is intending that it's in a container of sorts and that that could then be removed.
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Gives a closing summary, saying the bill has guardrails, that disclosure would be required for soil on property, and asks for support.
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I'm gonna go to you summation in a motion. Thank you all for, for getting through this and for also, um, allowing me the grace to get it forward here for conversation. There are so many folks who really felt and feel this is how they would like their end to come to. I think we've really done strong work with the guardrails. No one has to tell you if grandma's ashes are in the rose garden, but we would absolutely have to tell you if there was this soil and it would be in something to be taken. I know that there's, um, discomfort when we think about the end of our lives and the end of our loved …
S.B. 167 Reintegration for Disciplined Students · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Asks to circle S.B. 149 so that pending amendments can be addressed and the bill brought back that afternoon.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. I know we've had a lot of conversations and talk about this bill. There are a couple of amendments that are online about it and I think I wanted to give everyone a little notice it was coming. So I'd like to circle the bill and bring it back this afternoon. I can tell some are ready to go, but some aren't.
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Sponsor presents the bill to add University of Utah and largest not-for-profit hospital system appointees to the Homeless Services Board to add health expertise.
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I swear there's more oxygen in the room. I, I Thank You, Mr. President. Uh, this bill came out of multiple conversations with, um, folks in the space around what we're doing with our homeless services. And it became very clear that our current makeup of our homeless services board has a chasm in it. And that chasm is that there's no great representation of health, both physical health and behavioral health providers or administrators, people with familiar with that zone. And what that means is that when we have a proposal come out, for example, that would suggest a campus like structure or a big facility that could house multiple people and make the suggestion that there could be …
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says replacing board members is politically difficult, that the board has not sought health expertise, and that the seats should be added.
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Senator Plumb? I certainly considered both of those. And as I think we've seen in other commissions and board spaces, as soon as you suggest one that you say, I think that is less important than another, you get all sorts of new, uh, feelings that are hurt as well as turf battles. I think if there were a way, um, like for example, we had a representation of a mayor from counties of the first class that has, um, a homeless shelter in their municipality that had been removed from the board. Also thought that was sort of an important piece, but in the scheme of things not as important as the health piece. So I think that selecting …
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says she will consider Senator Owens' points about a possible swap and urges support for fiscally responsible recommendations on the board.
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No, I, I appreciate the, the thoughts that Senator Owens has put into my mind and I will continue thinking about that and perhaps, um, survey a few more folks about if there were to be a swap, what that would look like. But I do feel it is so absolutely critical for the protection of our state's resources and our dollars that we are making recommendations that can actually happen and that can be done in fiscally responsible ways because the spending in this space is unfortunately not going to go away soon. And I would like us to do it in an informed and thoughtful manner. So with that, I call
S.B. 169 High School Graduation Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Presented SB 169, which would require local education agencies to let students, including online program students, take part in graduation activities, with an exception for significant safety concerns, and said she had brought limited copies of bill summaries.
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Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee and all those who gather to be a part of the process. I'm hopeful that this will be a pretty simple bill, uh, to run by. You said no one ever. Right. But I am actually hopeful for that. This is a bill that came out of discussions with multiple stakeholders, uh, on a bill I was working on to try to figure out how we could remove barriers for students with housing instability. And it came up in the conversation that there were spaces or school districts that were not allowing some students to participate in graduation ceremonies. And there were different reasons for this. Some would perhaps cite that …
S.B. 169 High School Graduation Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Said the question was a good one and that she had not considered how online schools without ceremonies would be handled, and might add language on it.
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That's a fascinating question. And, and knowing that my more surface level understanding of what those org charts look like within the different districts and schools, um, perhaps that's something I need to consider adding in. If a school, uh, a totally online school has no graduation ceremony, it's not something I had considered.
S.B. 169 High School Graduation Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Said she was open to suggestions that would improve the bill.
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Okay. And I'm open to any thoughts that you might think would make that smarter.
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Presents SB 210 to fix search-and-seizure provisions from SB 61, adjust license fees and penalties, move enforcement duties to DPS, and respond to feedback about e-cigarette provisions.
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Thank you. Oops. Apologies for making it get out of order and appreciation for being plugged back in. This is an intimidating room and committee. I'm just gonna go ahead and say that, um, here I am back to talk about nicotine related things, and I'm sure everyone is very excited about it, but I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to work on some of these pieces, um, that will make legislation we have worked on in the past better. The kind of nexus for this bill is some fixes that needed to be made related to original Senate Bill 61. Um, did we get the summaries? They're awesome. Okay, good. Excellent. Um, that, you know, we …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Says a group with differing concerns worked together to propose fixes to the code.
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Well, and also on kind of a broader, um, explanation as, as a kind of a consortium of folks got together to talk about this, there were different ones amongst us who had different concerns for things that needed to be fixed in the code.
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Says law enforcement, SBI, health officials, and retailers were represented in discussions about the bill.
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That's, I, I know that there were conversations had outside of the, like, those of us on the call, there was representation from law enforcement, from SBI, from health, from retailers, from boy. And you know how it all starts to get fuzzy on whether or not that it was run past,
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Says health staff would report findings, while law enforcement would handle potentially dangerous situations.
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That's how I would envision it. And I think some of my law enforcement colleagues that consider here or, uh, working on this can explain to you the, the situa situations and scenarios that they've gone in on, on these. Um, bust isn't the right word, but that's the only one that's coming to me. The things that they come up with, these are not safe situations. These are dangerous potentially situations. And I, I really wouldn't want to put those folks that are very much more used to health like investigations than criminal like investigations. And so I would envision them being able to do, um, reports and also to call the next level of enforcement, which to me …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Explains that the fiscal note shows about $5 per cartridge in disposal costs plus an added investigator, and says she will review fee collection with the Tax Commission.
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It's those disposal charges? Um, if, if I, I can pull up my, um, fiscal note and if you can see it as well, it'll give you some decent ideas on what sort of amounts of money are being required to dispose of those cartridges, as well as being able to bring on an invest an additional investigator to specifically be more in this realm. But the, uh, on the fiscal note, sorry, I'm on the wrong number. I've got it here. If you've got it pulled up there, it's, um, it really is to be able to dispose of those products about $5 a piece. Um, and then also to be able to bring someone in to assist with …
S.B. 210 Nicotine Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Thanks the chair and says she will follow up on further questions by email.
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You, chair. Chair. And I'll follow up some further questions with answers to you all on email too. Thank you. I apologize I didn't ask anyone to chair while I was presenting.
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · Senate floor debate (day 18) · Feb 6, 2026
Says kratom is regulated as a food with few regulatory tools, that she does not see a safe regulatory path now, and that she opposes the substitute.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, this has been a very interesting kind of policy journey to watch both as someone who was not elected when it went through and now as someone who's elected and in the body. And I think that there's some really unique challenges in trying to figure out the best policy in that space, in that we have a product that is regulated as a food item. So we can't look at our typical medication or substance type strategies to keep people safe. So with a a medication, you could make it, you know, a controlled substance class one, and then it can't be put out there or two harder to get, three harder to get. …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Presented SB 224 to allow McKinney-Vento liaisons in schools to access vital records such as birth certificates, naming them directly and limiting access to this purpose.
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Excellent. So, Senate Bill 2 24 is a very basic bill that came out of some work that I was doing at an NCSL policy fellowship on youth homelessness and talking with different folks there and different programs, uh, around the country and finding places where they had found benefits. Even small ones. We love the big ones, but the small ones too. Um, we talked about barriers that, that the McKinney-Vento teachers and, and folks within the public schools came across. And one of them, so the McKinney-Vento funding is, it's essentially it's federal funding that sets up kind of rules, guardrails, pieces, ways for our, our public education system to help our students who are, are having housing …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Responded to the public concern, saying she wants students to have resources and schools to be reimbursed, and that keeping the bill narrow protects private records.
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You know, it's interesting as, as I think many of us feel about bigger, broader policies and, and big federal policies, they are imperfect. Uh, but they are what we have. And I want two things to happen. One, I want our students to have access to resources. And two, I want our schools to have reimbursement and funding so that when they're providing resources, it's not just coming out of the other pots and pools. So, um, I actually here, and a lot of what she was saying was resonates. And, um, thankfully I'm not a federal, uh, elected, but it's something perhaps to, that's worth bringing up to our federal electeds about some problems that are there. But …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Answered that the bill does not open records broadly, noting current rules require a designated reason and authority to obtain them and the bill names school liaisons.
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Uh, not to my knowledge because as it is right now, um, depending on the clerk that where you go to get it, uh, I mean, I'm talking about a birth certificate, essentially. Um, there are some who go ahead and give it to a school administrator. There are some who do not. Um, and so there is, there is some reference in there that I think the word was, let's see. Uh, let's see. And we do also allow this for their DCFS workers, I should say, like if someone's in our, in our foster system. But there's, there's a mention of here, oh, shoot. And I should have highlighted it, that that gives a kind of a hint …
S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Said she will keep asking questions of people in the field about possible tightening or clarifying changes to the bill.
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No, I, I think that, you know, like many of these bills that seem simple, that you leave with more questions in your head turning. And so I will be continuing to ask questions of the folks that work in the realm to see if there's any additional tightening or clarifying, and always will be open to those. But I, I appreciate the consideration.
H.B. 11 Dyed Diesel Fuel Search Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Supports the bill and says she did not know about dyed diesel until this bill was run.
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I also rise in support and, and mostly in appreciation that I didn't know about dyed diesel until this bill was run. And I always love it when I can feed my brain and now I know. So thank you for running this bill and I support it.
S.B. 89 Health Care Services Platforms · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Plumb says she has been learning from many voices and asks to circle the bill to keep working on improving it.
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Thank you Mr. President. I, I've been really learning a lot and, and listening to a lot of voices. I'd like to circle this bill and, and continue to working on making it better.
H.B. 33 Political Signs Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Asks whether the disclosure requirement is similar to the disclosure required on paid mailing advertisements. · speaker not certain
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I I just had a question. Um, is this kind of in compliance with the, the paid mailing advertisements, the disclosures that are required on that? Senator,
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Moved that the committee favorably recommend SB 185 to the full Senate.
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Uh, thank you Mr. Chair. I'd like to move that we favorably recommend out Senate Bill 180 5 to the full body of the Senate.
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Moved to place SB 185 on the consent calendar.
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Senator Plumb. I Would like to move that we place Senate Bill 180 5 on the consent calendar.
S.B. 222 Right to Try Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Expresses mixed feelings about the bill and asks what safety, disclosure, and patient-information safeguards are included.
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Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. It, I have these dueling brains about this because part of me loves the hope that we can cure some of the things that we haven't been able to cure. And then part of me has the fear that we can give people hope that they perhaps doesn't really exist for them. And there's a risk of medications that comes with that and cost that comes with that. And so I'm trying to kind of balance it out in my mind, having, you know, been through cancer with my dad and he, he made it 12 years with multiple myeloma when I was in med school. That wasn't even cure. Like there were no cures. …
S.B. 222 Right to Try Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Asks whether current Utah law requires an IRB-approved process for investigational treatments.
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Follow up. If I could go ahead. So does that, do you mean that the statutes in the way we're set up in Utah right now require it to be like under an IRB approved process? And when we say investigational, there's actual study, you know, the study guidelines have been set up and the conflicts of interests make it clear that the physician's not making, you know what I mean? There are things that influence people to sometimes understood.
S.B. 222 Right to Try Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Says an IRB protection is critical to her and asks for confirmation that it is in the law.
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So, but the IRB piece, do you know if that's in there or did, maybe Seth can ask there. 'cause that would be really important to me. I think that's where I feel most comfortable, that patients are protected with institutional review boards who are, um, not con not they don't have conflict of interest pieces and they are truly, like on the safety side. Um, that IRB piece would be really critical to me. Right.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the bill, developed with NCSL and Utah state staff, would save the state money by extending the usable time of naloxone, and that scientific and pharmacy communities support its safety.
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Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this was a bill we talked about yesterday where we worked with a whole group of folks via NCSL and about 10 different Utah State folks and came up with a concept to save the state money by extending the usable time of Naloxone, which is the opiate antagonist or the way you reverse an opiate overdose. This will save money for agencies, for our public health structures and, and allow us to continue getting these kits out as broadly as possible. There's been wide, uh, evidence from within the scientific community and our pharmacy community that this is safe and it feels like good policy. Thank you for the presentation.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Presents SB 96, which lets the opioid fatality review process in the Office of the Medical Examiner use treatment records of people who have died, so the state can learn from those deaths and help prevent future ones.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you, Mr. President. This was the second of the, uh, NCSL projects that we worked on together with multiple stakeholders. And this allows our opioid fatality review process that happens within the Office of the Medical Examiner to feel that they have clarity to use treatment records from folks that we've, uh, unfortunately lost. The goal is that we can learn from those and, and hopefully help people in the future not repeat those mistakes. It's pretty simple. Bill,
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Explains the bill requires cross-reporting between animal and child welfare agencies, citing animal abuse as a risk factor for child abuse and describing court-reported convictions going into DCFS records.
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Oh, Thank you, Mr. President. I, I get nervous. I, I've been Okay. Thank you all for hearing me out on this. Um, this is a subject that is not necessarily one that I think anyone looks forward to thinking about or talking about, but the importance of it is, is really crucial. And that is finding ways to protect some of our most vulnerable our kids, uh, in the spaces where they are at risk of neglect, abuse. Some of the other things that are really hard, like I said to talk about, and there's something that we have known about in the child welfare spaces and the child spaces and where we take care of kids. And that's …
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says she spoke with DCFS and the Attorney General's office about the language and that a substitute addressed their wording concerns.
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Yes. I, I spoke with Ms. Meyer as well as with the ag that works with them when we were constructing this and making sure that there was clarity around the language that they felt they could implement. Uh, and that also would help them have, um, you know, a lot of times people need permission, uh, from within the code to feel like it's okay to actually act on something. So yes, we did talk to and work with, um, the director, uh, and I think that first substitute in fact was addressing some language and, and wording concerns that they have.
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the bill covers only convictions, not charges, that courts would handle notification, and that she can change the wording.
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On the bill. Yes, I, I'd love to address some of these concerns. Um, Senator Hinkins, it's only a convicted crime. It's not a, a charge or a, it's a conviction of it. Uh, and then the courts would do the notification. So that's, that's the clarity that's in there. But I can certainly change wording too, if that would, if there's way to make that clear.
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says she is open to revising language on the concerns raised and will not advance the bill without further conversation.
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On Oh, no, I appreciate that, Mr. President. And, and I think that, um, this is part of my, my favorite process of when we do these bills, right? You, you have things brought up in committee that you address and you make hopefully better. And then here we are on the floor with the opportunity to address concerns that are brought up and make better. Um, I think that, um, both of the all three actually of the concerns reigned by raised by my colleagues are worth looking at language. And, um, I am committed as well to exploring that with them. If, if there's appetite to pass this on outta this reading, I won't advance it forward until …
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Moves to call the question and commits to making improvements before another reading.
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Uh, yes, Mr. President. Thank you. Uh, again, um, with gratitude for the opportunity to make this better and trying to get my ears honed forward a little bit here. Yeah. Um, I would call the question and like I said, commit to improvement before there would be another reading.
S.B. 91 Motor Vehicle Registration Services Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says SB 103 is a simple wording fix so fees can be waived for youth and adolescents seeking driver licenses.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this bill is a, a simple fix for some wording that was left out to make sure that we can waive fees for our youth and adolescents
S.B. 103 Driver License Amendments for Unhoused Individuals · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Sponsor explains that the bill lets youth in foster care or experiencing homelessness get driver licenses, and that it is a quick fix for wording that was missed in an earlier passage.
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for our youth and adolescents who are in the foster care system or are homeless for getting driver's licenses. It had originally been passed but the wording was missed. So it's just a quick fix.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Presents S.B. 50, which would make clear that insurers cannot limit anesthesia coverage based only on procedure time, and waives summation to call the question.
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Thank you Mr. President. This bill has a very simple purpose and that is to make it clear that Utah will not allow insurers to decide the amount of anesthesia coverage that a patient can receive during a procedure based only on the time. Very simple. Uh, pretext, Thank you again. We heard this bill yesterday. I don't see questions today, so I'm going to you for action. Uh, thank you Mr. President. I would waive any summation and call the question.
S.B. 103 Driver License Amendments for Unhoused Individuals · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Sponsor explains that S.B. 103 corrects a drafting error so unsheltered individuals are included in driver license access, building on a prior bill for youth document access, and says the fiscal note indicates funds were already allocated.
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Finally, this bill is actually a very simple fix from a bill that I had passed a couple of years back. And the goal of this bill was to get barriers broken down for our youth. So our unsheltered youth and our youth in foster, uh, care and recent graduates from foster care to have access to their crucial documents. So their birth certificates, their college transcripts, their driver's licenses. And there was a drafting error that was discovered that there had not been the unsheltered, uh, individual's part that got transferred into the driver's licenses. And, uh, an astute person at one of the NCSL conferences I was at, they were actually looking to replicate this bill in other …
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Says S.B. 50 requires health benefit plans to pay for medically necessary anesthesia services and bars denying payment based solely on a preset time limit, citing safety concerns.
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Uh, this bill is very simple in its construct as well as in what it does. Uh, I was approached by, uh, some folks in the anesthesia world, uh, expressing concerns after there had been a change in coverage proposed by one insurer last year, maybe 14 months or so ago that would limit the amount of coverage for an anesthesia service to time. And as you can imagine, this introduces a whole lot of potential concerns for safety. There's no way to predict exactly how any one patient is going to respond to medications or to any surgical procedure. And to have surgeons and anesthesiologists rushing through a procedure because they were trying to hit a timestamp just is …
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Says there is a substitute number two and moves to proceed with it.
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I, there, there was this run coming. Go ahead. Um, there's actually a substitute number two. I'd like to move that we can get forward If we can. The, the motion to substitutes
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb explains that the substitute removes the opioid-versus-opiate wording question, returning the bill to the term opiate, and notes it is a largely semantic change.
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Yes. It's been an interesting journey. There's this back and forth conversation between whether we use opioid or opiate in terminology, opiate actually means pure plant-based substance and opioid means either synthetically created or altered. And throughout the code there's a lot of back and forth. And so in discussing with the drafters, we've decided to go back to opiate and we'll deal with the opioid question later. So it really is kind of a semantics piece.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Sen. Plumb says the bill grew out of an NCSL meeting on opioid strategies and would let expired naloxone rescue kits be furnished for two years past expiration, which she says is supported by stability data and would save state agencies and communities money on replacing kits every 14 months.
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Uh, yes. So this bill actually came out of, uh, really kind of a cool thing that happened. NCSL brought about 10 different folks from Utah over and other states. I think there were five other states there to look at how we're addressing our opioid crisis and find strategies that might make us have, uh, movement forward. We had Senator Vickers there and myself. We had Lisa Sorenson from the lrg C'S office. We had Bill Newell from the Fentanyl Task Force. We had people from DHHS and DPS and it really was a great opportunity for all of us to be in the same room. Uh, we, we started calling ourselves STP the same 10 people because we …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Sponsor Sen. Plumb says S.B. 96 would let the Office of the Medical Examiner access treatment records for opioid fatality reviews, similar to other fatality reviews, while keeping treatment records protected during treatment, and thanks the agencies that worked on it.
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Thank you Mr. President. I, I neglected to include Representative Gwynn as part of the STP and my good sponsor, my good floor sponsor for these bills. Uh, when I mentioned them before, this is the second of the STBP bills, the bills that came out of us trying to find state solutions or at least move, uh, down the field a bit on this. And our office of the Medical examiner who does opioid fatality reviews, they do these in other tragic situations where we've lost folks in the hope that we can come up with information that may help us protect others. So in the suicide space, it does also happen in the mortality of moms space and …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Plumb says the bill labels animal control officers as first responders, which could open funding, grants, and mental health supports, and cites broad support from law enforcement and other groups.
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Um, this bill has actually been one of my favorite bills thus far this session because I have never gotten something where I, there was such, I have all of these letters of support that have rolled in from across the state and it feels really good when you feel like, okay, others are hearing the why of this. Right here I'm holding a letter from Nephi City Animal, uh, services director West Valley City, uh, South Salt Lake Harriman folks all across the state. And, and essentially this bill does a pretty simple thing that I already thought was a thing. And that is that it labels our animal control officers who are oftentimes first responders to a scene …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Plumb says animal control officers remain within their own field, have their own certification requirements, and the bill does not add new requirements.
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No, it's, they still stay specific to their lane. They still say in that animal control space, and much like first responder, uh, a police officer who goes through post, they have a specific number of requirements and classes that they have to take. EMTs have a different number of classes they have to take than a, um, say a paramedic has. And animal control officers, they do actually do some of their training in Post as well. So they have specific certifications that they go through. But this does not necessarily require any additional, um, expectations of them or put them in. Um, maybe a more flexible role is I think what I'm hearing from you. It just kind …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Plumb says she appreciates the input, will consider it, and waives further summation before calling the question.
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No, I, I appreciate the input and I always like a multi-tool that can do lots of things. So I will take that forward in thinking about this. And with that I waive any further summation and call the question.
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Thanked the committee and said she had not voted on the motion.
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Thank you very much, Madam Chair and members of the committee. I didn't vote in the motion. Sorry.
S.B. 98 Substance Use Rehabilitation Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Explained the second substitute, which adds funding from e-cigarette and vape funds and would have the Department of Health and Human Services create a certification program for recovery ready workplaces.
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We got there one way. I, I appreciate it. Uh, and, and I'll explain by way of as I'm presenting, um, the sub two essentially was, uh, came together by working with LRGC and LFA on ways to get funding, uh, that would be appropriate for this. And so, as we were working through different possibilities, and the great Russell Franzen brought, uh, a concept to us that was, uh, the way we would like to look at funding this, which is through some of our, uh, e-cigarette and, and vape funds that goes towards the impacts of substances. And so that sub number two added that fiscal piece into there. So this bill has come together, you know, when …
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Confirms that a substitute for the bill is ready and briefly explains a vote call that interrupted the discussion.
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Yes, please. And I think you have a substitute for that bill as well, Correct? I do. And apologies for sticking my earbud in. I got a ping from the committee that if I knew was needed to vote, so that's why I put that in. So hope it doesn't feel like I'm less, uh, invested. I just, just in case, uh, Senate, we Understand quorum problems, Right? It's a thing the Senator Vickers especially, oh, hang on. Here we go. I gotta vote. So sorry. Thank you all.
S.B. 128 Public Alert Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Presents the substitute bill, which creates a purple alert notification system for vulnerable people, modeled on Amber and Silver alerts but regional and local, with DPS input and stakeholder changes.
▶ Watch at 45:53Read what they said
Yes. Thank you. Um, and thank you for the motion multitasking. Uh, this substitution, uh, that went in Uintah incorporate some language suggested by DPS. Um, after we had conversations with multiple stakeholders, there were some language changes that made it more workable for them. So those were the changes that were added. And this bill, um, essentially creates what we would call a purple alert notification system. And I think many of us are maybe familiar with an Amber alert or a silver alert about ways that we would have not only communication to our communities, but set up coordination between our public safety entities, our public health entities, our community engaged groups to say, Hey, we've got someone …
S.B. 176 Landscaping Procurement Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Praises the sponsor's work and moves to replace SB 176 with the first substitute before recommending the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I just, um, wanted to note that although I wasn't here for a lot of the testimony, I had the earbuds in right there. So lest it seems, I just came in and threw a quick, uh, vote at, I, I wanted to applaud the, my colleague senator for, uh, her tenacious in this, because when you believe in something, that's what you do. And she has really stuck with this. Um, I would like to move that we favorably recommend, um, Before we do that, uhhuh, we, we do have a substitute, so we need to take care of that. We need move first. Okay. How about if I instead first recommend, is it …
S.B. 176 Landscaping Procurement Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend SB 176 first substitute to the full Senate.
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Next motion would be, I would like to move that we favorably recommend to the full body of the Senate, Senate bill 1 76. First Sub, first substitute. Yes.
H.B. 26 Voting Equipment Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend the substitute bill to the full Senate.
▶ Watch at 1:11:41Read what they said
Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. I would love to favorably or mo make a motion that we favorably recommend House Bill 26, substitute one forward to the full body of the Senate. Thank you for that motion discussion.
S.B. 194 Election Modifications · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Sen. Plumb said she came intending to vote no but appreciated that her concerns about voter suppression and voter ID were heard, while noting work remains.
▶ Watch at 2:18:39Read what they said
Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I similarly, the more lines there are, the more likely you are to find things that you're okay with and things that you're not okay with, and things you're cheering for and things that you're screaming about. And I fully, um, came in here with the intention to be a firm. No, but I, I also feel like when we speak to one another and bring up concerns and those concerns are addressed, that that is worth, that is worth something. And, and my concerns about voter suppression concerns and about voter id and, and i, I, it's, I guess what I'm saying is I appreciate feeling heard, and I do think there is …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presented SB 80, which would protect physicians from discipline or license jeopardy for declining to participate in an execution, and noted it grew from conversations in the last session.
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Okay. I'm all for it. Thank You Mr. Chair and members of the committee and folks who are gathered here today. This is, uh, a very simple bill that actually came out of a conversation. Well, a lot of conversations during the last session. And the gist of this bill is very simple, and it, it essentially says that a physician not willing to participate or engage in, uh, an execution is not at risk of jeopardizing their license. Um, that this is something that we would understand that would not be something some folks would be comfortable with most folks, many folks would be comfortable with. And so we would not punish them for that. There is a similar, …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
As a physician, said that medical risk is accepted in practice but that a state-sanctioned taking of life is different.
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I think that as a physician myself, we go into certain things knowing that there's high risk. Um, and you go in knowing that you may ultimately have a harmful outcome for someone. Um, but there's something different about a state sanctioned taking of life from most of the conversations I've had with folks around it.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Said she would still consider an inmate a patient in the sense of a physician-caregiver relationship when administering medication.
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At, boy, there's a whole lot of different questions there because I'm used to thinking of patients as someone that I have a relationship with providing care. They sure come to me, I've agreed to care for them. There's a charting process, there's a billing process, there's all of those pieces, right. But I do a fair amount of work out in spaces that doesn't involve a clinic or, uh, a street medicine sort of space, for lack of example. I would still consider that person my patient because they are entrusting their care to me and I am imparting some information or care to them. Um, if I were administering a medication to a person through an IV, through …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Said she is not aware of such a case and that discussion of broader refusal concepts raised concerns among physicians, though discipline appears rare.
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No, I'm not. And and I think that, um, when we had conversations around this, there was a broader co policy concept out about what a physician could or couldn't refuse to do, uh, in the provision of care. Um, and so there were deeper, um, and again, broader concepts that were going into that I am not aware of one, but I, it's amazing the kind of neck hairs that got risen on docs for them saying, what if I refuse to do that? Would there be long-term complications or consequences for me? And it's a pretty rare occurrence. It's not something tha that's, thankfully that's happening all the time. So it's a rare occurrence, the death penalty that …
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Said protections could be built in and that there is an ethical quandary on both sides.
▶ Watch at 1:22:32Read what they said
I, I would assume yes, that there could be built in, uh, I've not had anyone express to me that they were concerned that should they decide to participate in an execution, that they would face discipline only the concerns that should they not want to participate in it. But I think you make a valid point. There is an ethical quandary on both, uh, sides of that.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Said existing state protections for physicians who decline abortions were put in place over a decade ago. · speaker not certain
▶ Watch at 1:23:16Read what they said
Uh, there already are protections in place for, uh, we had put those in over a decade ago for, for physicians who were not willing or interested in that, they have protections for their both, I believe their license as well as protections of their job.
S.B. 80 Physician Practice Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Summed up, saying the bill responds to clinicians who reached out to her and that she wants to support them.
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No, I, I appreciate the kind of thoughts you've gotten going in my head because, um, you know, I certainly didn't try to march out with a, a flag of any sort. I think that, um, the conversations that started last session and have continued on since then, um, really just gave me that kind of desire to say, I hear you and I would like to support you, the, the clinicians that reached out to me. So, but I appreciate the, the conversations.
S.B. 83 Controlled Substance Scheduling Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Moved to favorably recommend the bill to the full Senate.
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Mr. Chair, I would Like to move that we, uh, forward this bill, uh, to the full body of the Senate favorably recommended, please.
S.B. 83 Controlled Substance Scheduling Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Said the earlier motion referred to a different bill and that the bill number needed to be checked.
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Actually one 20 one's different. Bill, like I said, like I said, I, let me just clear. 83. SB 83, I'd have To check when Senator Vickers is on Senate Bill eight that I
S.B. 83 Controlled Substance Scheduling Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Moved to favorably recommend SB 83 to the full Senate.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to move that we favorably recommend SB 83 forward to the full body of the Senate.
S.B. 158 Recreational Therapy Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Moves to recommend SB 158 favorably to the full Senate.
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Uh, thank you Mr. Chair. I would like to recommend that we move forward Senate bill 1 58 favorably to the full body of the Senate.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presented SB 127 to set statewide pediatric care readiness provisions, said it has no fiscal note, and said the Utah Pediatric Trauma Network would become a 501(c)(3).
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I know that there is, uh, a p physician online who couldn't get here in person as well. Uh, Hillary Hughes, who can certainly speak to this bill as well for me. Um, this bill is come together after, don't you love it when you have stakeholder conversations and there's a lot of agreement and a lot of head nodding, and a lot of ways that you work together to support good concepts. And that's really kind of the messaging behind how this bill came together. So, Senate Bill 1 27 Pediatric care Amendments would essentially enact specific provisions to support the provision of pediatric care across the state. So it doesn't matter if you're …
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Moved to recommend SB 127 favorably to the full Senate.
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Uh, thank you Mr. Chair. I would love to recommend that, uh, we move Senate Bill 1 27 forward to the full body of the Senate with a favorable recommendation. Wonderful.
S.B. 127 Pediatric Care Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Thanked the participants who worked on the bill.
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Thanks to all the folks and to all of, uh, the people who get it.
H.B. 50 Child Protection Ombudsman Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Moved to favorably recommend H.B. 50 to the full Senate.
▶ Watch at 1:10:52Read what they said
Thank you Mr. Chair. I would like to, uh, move that we favorably recommend House Bill 50 forward to the full body of the Senate with a favorable recommendation.
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presented SB 137, which would add two appointees from the University of Utah and a large not-for-profit hospital system to the Utah Homeless Services Board to bring healthcare expertise to the board.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, this bill should hopefully make some common sense to folks and I I can explain a bit of the backstory without going down too many chapters into it. Um, there has been an increased focus on how our state is going to respond to homelessness and to individuals who have unfortunately fallen into that space. There have been numerous conversations and back and forths about what the most appropriate strategy looks like, and certainly there are varying opinions on what that answer is. In listening into many different spaces and across many different conversations, I spent a decent amount of time listening to our state, uh, homeless services board, which, um, has weighed out a …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presents SB 170 to require providers to offer newborn vitamin K injections within 24 hours, with a signed opt-out after education, citing rising refusal rates and bleeding risks.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. Boy, you're daring to keep leaving my mic active. Thankfully I'm not mumbling over here Very much. So, Um, this bill is, uh, is a bill that came to me because of some concerns that were expressed by clinicians in the pediatric care world, but then personally as myself as a care provider, uh, when I had a specific case, uh, this came to me and, and without hopefully going fully down the weeds, and I did apologies for my academic self that printed out all of the graphics and the pictures of what a cerebral hemorrhage looks like and the things are in the pieces that I gave you. Um, I wanted to explain a …
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Responds that the language should require providers to explain the shot and let parents sign an opt-out form, and agrees the wording should be changed.
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Yes. This should you, you should have the healthcare provider shall, uh, do what is in line 34 and 35 and then off and, and express that the parent can sign a form if they desire to get, uh, it's, it's a little bit, we're not, I hear what you're saying, what we're saying we're the, we're you shall provide the shot, but there's no shall provide the information about the shot.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Commits to work with the drafter to fix the language before floor debate, or offers to have the language worked on in committee now.
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I I think it's such a clear and and appropriate change that I would absolutely commit to working with the drafter to make sure it's there on the floor. If that's comfortable for folks, if that's not as comfortable and you'd like me to circle it, I could even ask 'em to work on it now while we're in committee and see if we get there.
S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Commits to resolving the language before the bill reaches floor debate.
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Commitment from this senator that by the time we hit it on the floor, we move, you know, debate on second and on third. It's ready to prime for prime time.
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Notes that an amendment is available and checks whether it is a substitute or an amendment.
▶ Watch at 1:31:44Read what they said
And it looks like we do have an amendment as well. We do. If, is it a, let, let me just quick look. Was it a sub or no, it's an amendment That's right. With some addition of doppel language.
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presents the bill as a cleanup of the 2024 private probation law, saying the amendment clarifies that the rule applies to both private probation businesses and individuals, and explains the conflict-of-interest concern about one provider both supervising and providing treatment.
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Uh, thank you Mr. Chair. This is a, uh, bill in the way of cleanup and clarification with help from our doppel colleagues as well as the AG that works with them. When this bill was passed, uh, two years ago, it was, uh, the intent was very clear. We thought that this would apply to both providers of private probation services as well as businesses that provide private probation services. But the language did not reflect that. And so we have run into some complications both in the DHHS licensing space as well as in the doppel space because, excuse me, the language was not clear. So with the assistance of doppel, we are amending that language to make …
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Says she does not have the legal definition in front of her and asks staff to locate it in the code.
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Well, and I wanna make sure I speak to what the definition is in the code. So I wanna make sure that I, I've got it here. I've got the whole bill here. Um, I didn't see it in the bill, so I might need to, 'cause I don't wanna describe it. My, what my understanding is, I wanna give you the actual legal definition. So let me, I'm digging through the pieces here and I'll be darned if I'm not seeing the actual, that's interesting that it's not right there in the definitions, isn't it? Right at the beginning, usually of the bill. It's there. I might would have to phone a friend on that to get that for …
S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Jokes about not having the definition memorized and not having a cheat sheet. · speaker not certain
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You didn't have that memorized. I'm aiming for one day. One day. Or have it the cheat sheet on my forum, although my readers are gonna have to get stronger to
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presented the substituted bill, describing it as adding a natural organic reduction option as a funeral service in Utah, citing other states, the process, and potential carbon and soil benefits, and invited a funeral director to testify.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. I did relocate because I, there's a few slides that I wanted to share with the committee as well as with the folks who are here. This, um, bill has had some interesting conversations around them, and I would really like to just put a few, um, misconceptions to rest, for lack of a, a better way to say it. And this bill, essentially, um, is addressing adding an option for folks here in Utah in their final rest time. So when you've passed away an option for a way that you may, like your final remains to be processed, for lack of a better term. And this is a bill, uh, that has been based …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Responded to concerns, saying more understanding of body preparation is needed and that safety measures should apply to all offerings, and noted Utah law on burial on private land.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I, I Interesting the things that I have learned, um, in an arena that, you know, I've always been on the life saving and, and so this was really has been a, an investigative dive for me. And I think that without going into too much detail, I will tell you that if you had more understanding of what happens, uh, in the process of preparing a body for death, um, there might be more things you, you would want to explore. Um, because I, for example, didn't know that if I were going to have a standard burial, that my blood and other parts of me would be taken out and poured into the …
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Said the bill includes language barring use of remains on land used for food production and said she is open to additional safeguards applied broadly.
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At mco at this point, It does have the, um, requisite about food production. The, the, the soil, the, the, we say crem remains when it's someone who's cremated that the remains that come out of the reduction cannot be used on land where, you know, there will be food production. Is that in, in, is that in the language That is in this bill? Yeah. I can get to the line if you'd like me to, but yeah, we did specify that after conversations in, in previous discussions about it. And I think that, um, I'm open to other additional thoughts on what would give people additional, as I think the people that are interested in this realm would …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Introduced SB 81, saying it came from parents and professionals seeking to expand access to dyslexia assessments and services, and described the second substitute as a simple concept.
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Breaks are allowed. I have not been to education committee before. So, uh, grateful to be here. And, uh, it's not nearly as intimidating when there's only three of you around the diocese. So there's that. This bill, uh, Senate bill 81 came to me by a group of concerned, uh, parents, parent groups and professionals who wanted to address, uh, the dyslexia space and wanted to find ways where we could expand access and options for folks who are trying to get diagnoses, uh, and assessments and also services for their kids. So what we, where we ultimately ended up with this is, is not an enormous, you know, compend toum of, you know, 190,000 lines, but it's a, …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Explained that the substitute made language changes and clarifications after meeting with stakeholders, clarified who may administer dyslexia assessments, and described how schools must consider outside assessment results.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. And I'll, I'll work in what that substitute did to my description of the bill, but essentially it was language changes and clarifications that came after meeting again with stakeholders. So with therapists, social workers, clinicians, psychologists, and parents. To be clear that what we were trying to do, we were actually accomplishing. So in this bill we are trying to expand clarity around who is described to be permitted to administer a dyslexia assessment. And what I've heard from, from parents, and I, I think we can get it better out of the, out of my colleague here with me on the on the stand, but is that there's barriers to getting dyslexia assessments. Many …
S.B. 81 Dyslexia Testing Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Thanked the presenter and said the sponsor's presentation was complete. · speaker not certain
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So, uh, thank you. That's our presentation. Thank You very much. We're gonna come back to the committee for questions.
S.B. 104 School Medication Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Presents SB 104 as a clarifying bill that puts school medication requirements in one place, adds education and data tracking expectations, and keeps epinephrine as the only medication with a 'shall' requirement while the others remain 'may'.
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Okay, go ahead. Senate bill 1 0 4 is a bill that came together as, I suppose you'd call it a cleanup, a an organized, a clarifying bill. I, I've worked on a couple bills the last couple of sessions on school medications. Um, and there were other bills that had run before me and adjacent to those as well, we realized there were just some gaps, that there were some education expectations, some data tracking expectations, um, and we just wanted to make it the same for all of those school medications. So this bill essentially puts them all in one place and cleans up the code that they're all in one place. It, it is adds clarity so …
S.B. 100 Federalism Revisions · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asks whether the bill could create additional reporting work for school districts and LEAs. · speaker not certain
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Thank you. I'm wondering if this bill might create any extra work for our school districts, our, our LEAs and, uh, the way I read it, it looked like they might have some additional reporting requirements. Is that, is that accurate
S.B. 100 Federalism Revisions · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asks whether school districts or others have raised concerns about the reporting requirement. · speaker not certain
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It. Thank you. Have you, have you heard any concerns from school districts or other folks? Or is, or is, have they not weighed in on this? This specific piece adds them to do it?
S.B. 134 Court Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 4) · Jan 23, 2026
Says public concerns about optics and timing should be addressed and that the bill should build from the bottom up, with funding for district courts.
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. And, and piggybacking almost a little bit off of, uh, where Senator Musselman left that I, I think that the concerns from the public are something I'd like us to try to work around and work through and, and try to figure out how we can message better. Because we, we have a bit of an optics problem right now, and there are folks who are confused about what seems like the hypocrisy of us saying smaller boards, smaller sentencing, smaller school, where we say that on some issues or most issues, and then charge forward with making something else bigger that feels hard for the public to digest. I think personally, uh, from …
S.B. 103 Driver License Amendments for Unhoused Individuals · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Presented SB 103 to restore driver license fee waivers for youth experiencing homelessness, which was left out of the earlier bill, and said the bill has no fiscal note.
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Bill. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, and this really should be a, a quick presentation. Uh, Senate Bill 1 0 3 is a quick fix on a bill that we had passed, uh, two years ago that was removing fees for driver's licenses, birth certificates, and HI transcripts from education facilities for youth, young folks experiencing homelessness and also for youth in our foster systems. We were sharing the success of this bill at an NCSL conference. As luck would be and someone that was reading it wanting to replicate, it went, how come you don't have the, uh, youth experiencing homelessness on the fee waiver for the driver's license? And we said, oh, we do. And then we …
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Presents S.B. 70, which asks local emergency plans to address sheltering for pets, and explains the bill's origins and intent to avoid prescriptive rules.
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70. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, also to the folks here with us. Yeah, this bill has been, um, really an interesting learning adventure for me. And I think we've, we've gotten it to a, a really good place. Uh, the impetus for this bill actually came out of an odd spot where it was when Hurricane Helene was coming through, and I was at a conference listening to the news, and I heard Governor DeSantis of Florida talking to individuals in his community about going to seek safety, going to a shelter, respite, not putting yourself in harm's way. And he said, and I'm like brushing my teeth and doing the things. And I heard him …
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Says she will work with drafters to clarify the intent language about animals left confined during a disaster.
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You know, that's a good question. Say the person wasn't home to have a chance to release the leash or even sort of a deal. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm asking. You know, that's an interesting consideration. I, um, that deserves, yeah, that deserves the ponder. I, I think, and, and I can work with the drafters to make sure there's clear language on that, on what, uh, intentional would be. Knowingly. Intentionally, Yeah. Knowingly intentional. Make sure that we're clear on that language because there would be a difference between that and someone who tied to a fence posted. You know what I mean? That Yeah, yeah. There would be a difference in that. So yeah, I, I would, …
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Responds that the bill does not require animal shelters or animal control to take in animals, says emergency managers were consulted, and says she remains open to wording changes.
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On. Yeah, I was gonna say, I think there's likely some, some sovereignty points that come into that, that, that could be had. But this isn't about, uh, involving our animal shelters at all, or dropping animals at our animal shelters or expecting animal control officers or people to do anything more than they're already doing. And in fact, I think it would help lessen the response that they have to do if there's not animals left running wild and instead are taken to a location where their, um, caretakers are. Um, I wanna be really clear, I think that there continues to be a misrepresentation of what this bill is. Um, I, I am telling you there have been …
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Explains that the animal categories come from existing code and says the bill may help the state seek federal emergency funds.
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Although, so it's known the description of the animals. I didn't pull bunnies and turtles and rode. That was not a me thing. That is based on code. That that's how that's defined. I also do think that this may open up opportunities for us to get additional federal emergency management response dollars. So we've tried to think about all the pictures, can't please all the people all the time, but you still continue to try.
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Declines to draft language during the committee meeting and suggests taking the issue offline.
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Shouldn't have? Well, I, I don't wanna draft, I don't wanna draft a bill in committee meeting. If we're gonna do a, let's take it offline.
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Says he has received feedback and that counties were okay with the bill that morning.
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Feedback received. And I, I hear, I absolutely hear you. The counties were okay with this bill this morning for what that's worth.
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Says she appreciates the chance to improve the bill, acknowledges some provisions may need to be cut or changed, and wants to keep working with stakeholders.
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Agenda. Senator Plumb, you wanna reply? No, I, I, I appreciate the opportunity to, um, make anything better. You know, I think any of us do appreciate that and I think that, um, I, I would love to continue the conversation, so I appreciate that. I also acknowledge there's probably some things that, you know, black, white, like that. There, there won't be. And maybe those are pieces that you address and cut out. So I, I appreciate the opportunity to make it better and, and, and keep it alive and keep learning from folks.
S.B. 70 Natural Disaster Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 22, 2026
Thanks the committee and says she will keep learning from stakeholders.
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Like I said, I always appreciate the opportunity to learn. Thanks for your work. Yep. Thanks y'all.
S.B. 48 Kratom Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 3) · Jan 22, 2026
Speaks in support of S.B. 48, saying the 7-OH component is dangerous and has no good use, and commends the sponsor.
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Thank you Mr. President. I also rise in support of this bill and, and without hopefully being too repetitive, echo the sentiments of both of my colleagues and cannot express how dangerous this seven hydroxy component is. It there has no right need being out in our communities. And it is simply, uh, something that has come to be so that people, uh, can make money. It has, there's no good use for this substance. And I applaud the Senate good Senator Vickers effort for going forward and taking this off our shelves. Thank you.
S.B. 101 Specialized Product Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 3) · Jan 22, 2026
Plumb says committee discussions were useful and asks to circle S.B. 1 11 to keep working on it.
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Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. Um, we had some really insightful discussions, uh, yesterday evening in committee and I would like to circle this bill so I can continue to work on making it better.
S.B. 101 Specialized Product Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 3) · Jan 22, 2026
Plumb asks to circle S.B. 61 so she can keep working on it.
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I almost feel like I should ditto that last statement. Uh, I would love to circle this bill and work on it a bit, Mr. President.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presents SB 50, which would require health benefit plans to pay for medically necessary anesthesia and bar denying payment solely based on time limits.
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Okay. I am looking for the green to come on. You're lit up. Is it looking on your side? Oh, that sounds it. It's on. Okay, perfect. Okay. Thank you. Early Bird gets the Worm Committee. Much appreciation you all, and to all of you who have joined us as well to weigh in. Uh, Senate Bill 50 is a bill that I was approached about running by some people who work in the space, uh, around anesthesiology. And it came out of something that had happened about a year or so ago where there was a proposal by an insurance carrier that they were only going to cover the amount of anesthesia time. So that's the amount of time …
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Explains that the bill prevents time limits on covered anesthesia and that network-based rate differences would still apply.
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So this is essentially real simple. It's, we can't put a time limit on what anesthesia will be covered. So in terms of, you know, if you're a University of Utah network and you're in an Intermountain facility, you would still have those, um, different rates.
S.B. 50 Anesthesia Dosage Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says insurance coverage under the bill could not depend on how long the anesthesia takes.
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But that there can be nothing related to the time that that took, uh, as, as how your insurance coverage would be.
S.B. 87 Naloxone Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presents the substitute, which changes 'opiate' to 'opioid,' and describes the bill: allowing expired naloxone up to two years past expiration to be used and distributed, with an education requirement, to reduce purchasing costs.
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You. And, uh, the sub actually, uh, was a, a little bit further on cleanup just to know what it was adding. We were, after dealing and speaking with some pharmacy types and medical types, we wanted to be clear, uh, by changing the term opiate to opioid. And there had been a couple of spaces where that had been missed in the initial bill. So the sub itself just added a couple more spaces where we were changing opiate to opioid. And really the difference clinically, opiate and opioid looked the same, act the same. You treat them the same in the way you deal with them in overdose. You use them for pain relief. Opiate means pure plant-based …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Moved to substitute the first substitute for SB 96 in place of the original bill.
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Yes. I would like to, uh, make the motion that we substitute sub one in body and title for initial Senate bill 96.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Explained the reasons for the substitute, including clarifications requested by DCFS, and described the link between child abuse and animal abuse and the handouts she distributed.
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Okay. Uh, as I did before, I'd, I'd like to clarify why sub one came into being, and this came up just in the last little bit. We, um, in the process of, of putting this bill together, have engaged a whole lot of stakeholders. And we heard back from some of the partners at DCFS, especially in the, uh, administrative space. And there were a couple of clarifications they wanted us to add that would make implementation easier for them. So this was, uh, about, there was one space where we had said that a local authority may engage with, uh, an animal control to start with an MOU. He said, that actually makes it stickier for us. So …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Noted that the committee had moved on to SB 115 and asked whether to continue with it or return to SB 96.
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I'm on Senate bill one 15. Right. But we, the one before we substitute was 96. Yeah, look at that. Wouldn't you know that one 15 also has a sub? So look at me going down all the paths. So do you want me to keep going with one 15 and we change the numbers?
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Joked about the detour to SB 115 and agreed to return to SB 96.
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Look at me. But hey, you know, it's all good. So we will, uh, We're gonna take a little break from the stuff that makes our hearts hurt. Okay. That, that stuff that, that was just a little take a pause A little. I see what did a little break. It was like a little, it's like tantalizing. It's like, Ah, some things are better in small bites. This, this is one of 'em all. Now we're gonna, well, thank you for catching that. We're, yes. Lemme go back to 96. You had a little, little preview of one.
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presented SB 96, explaining its origin from an NCSL-related stakeholder group, the Office of the Medical Examiner's access to treatment records for fatality reviews, and the clarifying language added in the substitute.
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Uh, 1596 is again, another bill that came out of that NCSL um, conference. And so I don't need to say name the same task of players or list of players, but interestingly, a gentleman by the name of Bill Newell, who leads the Governor's Fentanyl task force was also there and called it the STP seven 10 people. 'cause you know, we were the same 10 people who were really engaged and, and always thinking and talking about these issues and the STP. And as part of the group, we talked about Naloxone access, we talked about treatment, we talked about all so many other angles of places that were overlapping. But one thing that was made, uh, brought …
S.B. 96 Opioid Fatality Review Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said the committee does not need to go through the whole presentation again. · speaker not certain
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So I just didn't, if you promise we don't, we don't need to go through the whole speech again. Yep. I'll just pick up pretty smart before it was. Okay.
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Moved to replace SB 115 with the first substitute, SB 115S01.
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Yes, please. I would like to, uh, have us replace in, uh, title and Body Senate Bill one 15, substitute one.
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Explained the substitute and the bill's goal of building connections between child welfare and animal welfare agencies, with permissive information sharing and court reporting of animal-abuse convictions.
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Chapter two, picking back up where I left off, uh, the sub was to get those, um, kind of clarifications that the folks in the DCFS and DHHS admin space had requested. Um, and back to what the bill is, the bill really is trying to help us build some bridges between spaces where there might be information that could help one another, but that there isn't necessarily a natural pathway for them to communicate. Other states have built these cross reporting laws into their codes. Illinois, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Florida. There's, how many did I count on there? I think there were two, three, like 12 of them that have done it. And they've done it in …
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said she had not yet obtained the number of convictions from the courts, but would try to get the numbers and information on allegations.
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You know, that's a great question. And I did engage, um, Michael Drell from the courts to make sure this would not be like an overwhelming proposition for them. I didn't ask him the actual number, though. I bet we can get it. I bet we can get it. And, and it isn't necessarily the most easy conviction to get. Um, there are a lot of things that have to go into that. So that, for me feels like a threshold that we could feel pretty certain that something, um, had transpired there if we put it on the conviction as opposed to just the allegation. But I'm, I'm glad to try to get those numbers for you. It would …
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said she would look into the numbers on filed cases and convictions. · speaker not certain
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The convictions? Oh, I'm glad to dig into that and see what we can come up with. Yeah.
S.B. 115 Child and Animal Abuse Cross-reporting Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Thanked the committee for considering the bill.
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Well, thank you all. Um, I, I know it's not an easy topic, but I do think it's such an important topic, so thank you for the consideration.
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presented SB 102 and said it would recognize animal control officers as first responders, citing acknowledgment of their work, possible grant eligibility, and access to protective equipment, training, and mental health support.
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All right. Thank you Committee, uh, for bearing with me. Um, lesson to self, if you start working on bills early and talk to all the stakeholders, you're gonna get a, a bunch launched out early in session, which that's gonna be a good thing. Right? Early bird, uh, this bill was brought to me by some folks who work in the animal control space, perhaps. 'cause some of these conversations were already happening. And, and it was something I'd never really thought of, because in my mind, I think of a first responder as the first person there. Um, and, and maybe so far, even as sometimes I think of the first responder is the family. If, you know, …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Asked whether Senator Stratton's question was understood correctly.
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Is that, am I getting at the, am I getting at the question you have?
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said the question was fair and suggested that people in the room could address it.
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That's, I'm not sure what the, that's, That's a, that's a fair question. I'm hopeful maybe some of our folks that are here can help address that.
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said that from her experience as an EMT and talking with law enforcement and fire personnel, she had not thought about the issue in depth but now sees animal control as an important part of scene safety.
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You know, I'm not sure if surprise is the right word. I, I harken back to iol started my whole medical exposure as an EMT in South central LA of all places. And so I got my eyes open to a whole lot of things. And I remember calls as, you know, the, they're arriving with the ambulance for the human that we were like, we're not going anywhere near there until someone controls that animal or until someone removes that. And, and I'm an animal at, self-admitted animal, dare I say, idiot in public. I, but I, I mean it like I'm someone who thinks I can pet anything. Like, oh, let me, yeah. And, and so I, I …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Said there have been some conversations, with mixed responses, and that she plans to talk further with organized groups and is open to changes.
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It's, it's interesting and, and I have, I think we have some more conversations to do because I think, you know, there's more organized representation of bigger groups here. But in my individual conversations, um, there has been a little bit of that. Oh, interesting. Huh. Like, kind of like I said, my response was to, and absolutely they are one of us, and they're not always treated like they're one of us. Um, so I've, I've seen a little bit of a range of what people's responses have been to that. Uh, I do intend to talk to, you know, maybe some of the, like I said, the more organized folks to get what input they have and if …
S.B. 102 Animal Control First Responder Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Thanked committee members for raising the points, said there is more to examine and learn, and said she will bring that forward.
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Yes. I, I, I'm thanks for planting the seeds because I think there are, there's some digging to do and some learning to do and, uh, I'm absolutely open to that and, and we'll bring that forward. And, and I'm hopeful as well that my, the, the colleagues and the folks that have spoken here today can help some of those conversations be facilitated too. Um, we learn the more we talk, so. Okay.
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Confirms there is a substitute bill and comments on the committee's busy agenda.
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I do. Early Bird and the worm, there's a thing they say about that. Careful what you wish for. You end up with seven bills in a day. I appreciate everyone's patience on the committee.
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Proposes moving the substitute now and offers to explain its changes.
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Let's go ahead and move the sub and I'll just explain what the context of the changes are.
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Explains that the substitute clarifies what disposition of remains means and is a cleanup of the bill.
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So, um, there has been interesting conversations in the funeral spaces as some of, uh, related to some of the other bills that I've run. And so, Senate Bill 61 is addressing a piece about what disposition means. So when there's some, uh, transactional piece about what happens when somebody passes, uh, what the next step for them is, but then also what happens between, say, a funeral home and a family when they acquire the remains. That's what this bill is addressing. This is, uh, essentially a little bit of a cleanup bill from working with some people in the industry funeral industry space. And there, as we had more and more conversations were some bits of clarity that …
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says her closing remarks on the substitute are complete.
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Do you have any further summation? Senator Plumb? No. That, that about sums it up.
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presents the bill, saying it addresses receipts and the 60-day disposition requirement for remains and is a cleanup measure with no major policy change.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. And members of the committee. Folks who've joined us today, as I mentioned, um, perhaps an unexpected, uh, foray into policy space since I was elected, was looking at some of the pieces of policy around funeral policies and funeral options that people have. And this bill came out of conversations around advocates for people in this space as consumers, as well as providers. And it seems that there's been some discussion back and forth about, you know, what actually happens in the ends of, of someone's time. And there's been pieces and transactions that have happened in the funeral homes, um, uh, between the families or the loved ones and, and the deceased. And there's …
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says the bill began with a consumer advocate and was discussed with the industry lobbyist, and that she is not an industry specialist.
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Yes, and I, I am hopeful that perhaps there'll be, uh, some voices here worked with, uh, I've heard there's people dying to testify. Oh, somehow I should have known that it would come. You started It. I did two years ago. And what was I, um, the, from the, the first contact was made to me by, uh, a bit, uh, of an advocate in the consumer industry space, and then have spoken as well with, um, the lobbyist for the industry, and they have since connected as well. So there's been a, a bit of a full circle there on that. I, I would not purport to be an industry specialist, but I, I have really come to …
S.B. 61 Funeral Services Licensing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says the work on the bill will continue as possible.
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Senator Plumps? Any further summation? No. Thank you. I appreciate that, that we will continue, um, work to the extent that it is possible. Okay.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Presents S.B. 111 to bar non-compete clauses for veterinarians and says the non-solicitation and non-disclosure language is open for committee input.
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This is a bill that I, I really look forward to hearing what the committee's thoughts are on. And I know I'm not certain how many folks are here to speak in person. I know that we have been receiving emails from many of the folks that are impacted in this space. Um, I, I mean, we, being you all as a committee and me as the sponsor of, uh, this bill and this bill is surrounds the area of non-complete Pete agreements in, in employment contracts. And it's, it's something, you know, non-complete. Something I've heard about in, in medical spaces before. I've heard about in other conversations before, and I've never really had to think about it very …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Responds that some professions already have protections and that starting with a narrower bill can be easier to adjust.
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Yeah, and, and I would respond, I, is there a reason We carved it out for broadcast professionals, which We didn't, Which doc? Dan ert, excuse me, former Senator ert. We, we live in it to a year for all professions. There's, there's a bunch of protections for broadcast professionals that are in the current code, like specifically for broadcast professionals. So, while I hear you, I do think that we have shown when there is a uniqueness as well as benefit that far outweighs a potential detriment that there is something there. I do think also that there is a bill, uh, running from the house that Representative Clancy is running, um, on that's very broad with non-competes. There's …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Responds that veterinary training works through a pipeline and that workforce shortages make the concern less pressing.
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Well, something that I learned, and, and Dr. Tarasoff can speak more to this, something that I learned is that, uh, a veterinary internship slash residency, the way it works in medicine is that there's a whole process, right? You go through the match and you apply to places that you think are a good fit for you, and they meet you and then they match who they think fits where. Um, and it, and there's like almost a contractual thing that happens. That's not as much what happens in veterinary medicine. People sign up and actually do the internships with, and you can speak more to what this looks like, but they're coming in for, is it five years …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says non-competes are not declining in practice and are becoming more restrictive, especially at corporate practices.
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That's A great question to me. Oh, Mr. Chair, if I may, um, please. Uh, it sure doesn't seem like it when I talk to the professionals. I mean, there's even some of these corporate folks that are throwing in bits about giving an ownership of 0.001% so that they, even if a non-compete piece goes through that, uh, then they wouldn't be able to enforce it because it's an owner, which is why I put the 5%, there's a piece in there about an ownership of greater than 5%. Um, because I, I don't think it's going in away. And I think that from what I'm seeing and hearing from the practitioners, it's getting more and more abusive. Um, …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says the same issue exists in dentistry.
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It's the same issue. I mean, it's the same issue. Yeah. So I, I'm not saying that I don't like them. I don't, I don't like them. Yeah. I don't like noncompetes. Yeah. But it's the same in issue in the dental world. So we're, we're picking winners and losers somewhat here.
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says the bill was intentionally broad and asks for help crafting narrower, more tailored language.
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No, and, and I do appreciate that. And like I said, I, I intentionally left a, a decent amount of broadness there because I think there are conversations amongst, especially folks in the business, communities, in the legal communities, like, help me out. Help me craft something smarter here. Um, I I, if I were designing a, a, a human, I mean, if I were designing a care, uh, bill, I think I would actually include human and animal care, dentists, doctors, all the other ones. You might see why there's a conflict of interest there for me to, to dive into that. Um, I, again, I, the more and more I think and thought about it, it's this, what …
S.B. 111 Veterinary Post-employment Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Jan 21, 2026
Says the conversation is ready for Utah and offers to narrow the bill and keep working on it in committee.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I am, um, learning as I'm listening, and I think that some of this probably ultimately comes down to where we fall out on who we're protecting with, with different pieces of do we allow a contract that, um, benefits a big corporation more than it benefits a little guy versus, you know, where do we all fall out on some of this thinking? I, I understand as well. The piece about is government regulation, the answer? I feel like this conversation is beyond ready to happen in this state. Um, I think that if we are willing to pass this bill out of committee, i, I will commit to all of the conversations and …
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