2012 Bill List - January 27, 2012

Bill

Legislator

Title

Description

Committee

Status

House Bills

HB 19

Harper

State Issued ID Numbers
This bill:
  • enacts the "State Issued Identification Number Act";
  • defines terms;
  • exempts the State Tax Commission; and
  • prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from: using a Social Security number to identify an individual unless required to use a Social Security number by federal or state law; and
  • creating and assigning to an individual a nine digit identification number except when required to use a Social Security number.

HSTRUL

House received fiscal note from Analyst

HB 20

Webb

Election Law Amendments

This bill:

  • amends definitions;
  • changes certain deadlines related to a municipal election;
  • requires a municipality to give notice of the declaration of candidacy filing period;
  • changes the time in which a person's right to vote may be challenged; and
  • makes technical changes.

SSTGOP

House 3rd Read  69-0-6

HB 25

Barlow

Patient Identity Validation

This bill:  authorizes the Department of Health to establish methods or measures for health care providers, public health entities, and health care insurers to coordinate among themselves to verify the identity of the individuals they serve; and includes in the description of governmental function for immunity from suit the establishment of the methods or measures for health care providers, public health entities, and health care insurers to coordinate among themselves to verify the identity of the individuals they serve.

SSec

House 3rd Read 51-17-7

HB 30

Peterson

Unemployment Insurance Amendments

This bill:  reduces the maximum unemployment insurance contribution rate for an employer from 9% plus the social contribution rate to 7% plus the social contribution rate beginning in calendar year 2012; caps the social unemployment insurance contribution rate for all employers at .4% for calendar year 2012 only; provides that if the reserve fund is insolvent, the reserve factor is 2.0 until the reserve fund becomes solvent; and makes technical changes.

HSTRUL

 

HB 46S1

Menlove

Electronic Personal Medical Records

This bill:  amends the duties of the state Medicaid plan to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries in the electronic exchange of clinical health records unless the individual opts out; requires the Department of Health to submit a waiver for the state Medicaid plan and Children's Health Insurance Program to require beneficiaries to enroll in the electronic exchange of clinical health records; amends the duties of the Children's Health Insurance Program to enroll the members of the Children's Health Insurance Program in the electronic exchange of clinical health records unless the individual opts out; and amends the duties of the Public Employees Health Program to require the program to enroll members in the electronic exchange of clinical health records.

HSTHHS

6-2-1

House 3rd Read Cal #17

HB 54

Pitcher

Prescription Drug Access in Rural Areas

This bill:  amends provisions of the Pharmacy Practice Act to prohibit a third party payor of prescription drug benefits from charging a patient higher copayments for a prescription drug if the patient resides in a rural area of the state and chooses not to use an out-of-state mail order pharmacy.

HSTRUL

House received fiscal note from Analyst

HB 55

Draxler

Healthcare Associated Infections

This bill: defines terms; requires an ambulatory surgical facility, a general acute hospital, and a specialty hospital to share with the Department of Health data on health care associated infections that the facility submits to the National Healthcare Safety Network in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pursuant to requirements of the Center or Medicare and Medicaid Services; requires the Department of Health to prepare and publicly disclose a report on health care associated infection rates; establishes a protocol for the creation of the report; permits the report of health care associated infections to include data that compares and identifies facilities; states that the report shall not be used as evidence in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding; and makes technical changes.

HSTHHS

8-0-1

House 3rd Read Cal #19

HB 70

Arent

Air Quality Task Force

Title only . . . no language

 

 

HB 72

Hendrickson

Waste Tire Amendments

This bill:

  • modifies the definition of "waste tire";
  • prohibits a tire retailer from transferring ownership of a waste tire to anyone other than a waste tire transporter or a person who purchases it for the person's own use;
  • prohibits a recycler from receiving partial reimbursement for baling whole waste tires or materials derived from waste tires that are larger than shredded tires;
  • deletes references to the Waste Tire Recycling Industrial Assistance Loan Program and the Waste Tire Recycling Industrial Assistance Loan Fund; and
  • makes technical changes.

 

House Committee Held

HB 94

Anderson, J

Government Competition with Private Enterprise

This bill:

  • defines terms;
  • requires a government entity to conduct a study and contact private enterprise before engaging in certain commercial activity;
  • requires the Privatization Policy Board to hold a public meeting and issue an advisory opinion about a government entity's proposed commercial activity;
  • grants a private enterprise a private right of action to compel compliance with requirements of the part;
  • addresses attorney fees and court costs; and
  • makes technical changes.

HSTRUL

 

HB 245

Last

Amendment to Definition of Smoking in UT Indoor Clean Air Act

This bill:

  • amends the definition of smoking to include e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products; and
  • defines e-cigarette.

9-0-1

House Committee Held

HB 247

Ray

Cost Sharing for Smokers Enrolled in Medicaid

This bill:

  • requires the state Medicaid program to apply for a waiver to increase the cost sharing for enrollees who use tobacco; and if a waiver is granted, requires the state to implement the waiver by the following July.

HSTGOC

House to Standing Com.

HB 254

Froerer

Controlled Substances Amendments

This bill:

  • adds benzylpiperazine to Schedule I of the controlled substances list; and
  • adds AM-2201, RCS-4, JWH-210, and JWH-203 to the list of listed controlled substances.

HSTHHS

House received fiscal note from Analyst

HB 276

Ray

Aiding Sexual Solicitation

This bill:

  • provides that a person's enabling another person to commit an act of aiding prostitution is also the offense of aiding prostitution.

HSTLAW

 

HJR001

Wheatly

Green Schools Joint Resolution

This resolution:

  • encourages the Utah State Board of Education to consider the broader application of the design and construction practices for green schools, both for new construction and major renovation projects undertaken with school district funds; and encourages school districts to consider seeking application for certification of green schools under the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system (LEED), or certification under a comparable system with requirements at least equivalent to the LEED Silver certification for new or retrofit construction, or other building performance systems like the United States Department of Energy's ENERGY STAR Program.

 

 

 

HSTPUT

 

Senate Bills

SB 11

Dayton

DEQ Adjudicative Boards

This bill:  defines terms; distinguishes between adjudicative proceedings not related to permit orders and 1 permit review adjudicative proceedings; modifies requirements and procedures for adjudicative proceedings where a party challenges an agency order, other than a termination order, relating to a permit, plan, license, approval order, or other administrative authorization made by an executive secretary under Title 19, Environmental Quality Code; provides that only properly preserved issues may be reviewed during a permit review adjudicative proceeding; describes the requirements for intervention in a permit review adjudicative proceeding; establishes that permit review adjudicative proceedings will be based on the administrative record and any permitted supplementation; provides that stays may not be issued during a permit review adjudicative proceeding, unless certain conditions are met; provides for judicial review of a permit review adjudicative proceeding; and makes technical changes.

21-4-4

HSTJUD

SB 13

Christensen

Medical Examiner Amendments

This bill:  requires the state medical examiner to assume custody of a body when it appears that the death is the result of a highway accident.

26-0-3

HSTHHS

SB 18

Dayton

Government Records Management Act

This bill:

  • amends the requirement of the lieutenant governor and county clerks to make certain records available for public inspection;
  • classifies a voter's email address on a voter registration record as a private record; &
  • makes technical changes.

HSTGOC

Senate 3rd Read 28-0-1

SB 21

Dayton

DEQ Boards Revisions

This bill:

  • gives rulemaking authority to the Department of Environmental Quality to create attendance standards and conflicts of interest procedures for board members and to make procedural rules for adjudicative proceedings;
  • changes the composition of each board created under Title 19, Environmental Quality Code;
  • establishes qualifications for board members;
  • requires board members to comply with attendance standards and conflict of interest procedures;
  • provides for the executive director of the Department of Environmental Quality to take final dispositive action on an adjudicative proceeding under Title 19, Environmental Quality Code;
  • transfers powers and duties from a board to a division director;
  • provides for certain division boards to approve enforcement settlements negotiated by a division director that exceed $25,000; and makes technical changes.

 

Senate circled on 2nd Read #2

SB 25

Van Tassell

Driver License & ID Card Amend

This bill:

  • repeals the requirement that a peace officer take a motor vehicle operator's Utah license certificate or permit and issue a temporary license certificate effective for only 29 days from the date of arrest if the operator of the vehicle has been arrested for certain alcohol or drug related offenses;
  • repeals the provision that prohibits the state from participating in the implementation on the REAL ID Act and provides that the Driver License Division may implement the REAL ID Act;
  • prohibits a person from holding both an unexpired Utah license certificate and an unexpired Utah identification card;
  • provides that if certain persons hold an unexpired Utah license certificate and an unexpired Utah identification card, the person shall surrender either the Utah license certificate or the Utah identification card within certain time frames, or the Driver License Division shall cancel the person's Utah identification card;
  • provides that certain limited-term license certificates or identification cards expire on the date of issuance in the first year following the year that the limited-term license certificate or identification card was issued;
  • authorizes the Driver License Division to extend certain license certificates by electronic means or other means determined by the division; and makes technical changes.

 

Senate received fiscal note from analyst

SB 32

Mayne

Breast Cancer Prevention Amendments

This bill: requires a facility that performs screening or diagnostic mammography to provide a patient who has dense breast tissue with notice of options for additional screening.

SSTHHS

4-0-1

SEN.  2nd

Read #15

SB 34

Anderson

Production and Sale of Food in UT Revisions

This bill:

  • prohibits federal regulation of an agricultural product that remains in Utah after it is made, grown, or produced in Utah;
  • allows a person to identify certain agricultural products by indicating that they are "Made in Utah," "Grown in Utah," or "Produced in Utah";
  • prohibits a person from claiming that an agricultural product was made, grown, or produced in Utah if the product is not a Utah agricultural product;
  • makes it a class A misdemeanor for a person to enforce federal regulation of a Utah agricultural product that remains in Utah; and
  • provides a person grounds to request injunctive relief if the person is punished in violation of this section.

 

Senate received fiscal note from analyst

SB 41

Jones

Regulation of Tanning Facilities

This bill:

  • amends definitions;
  • amends tanning facility permit requirements;
  • prohibits a tanning facility from allowing use of its tanning device unless the facility meets specified requirements;
  • amends restrictions on use of a tanning device by a person under 18 years of age by prohibiting a tanning facility from allowing a person under 18 years of age to use a tanning device unless the person has a written order from a physician;
  • amends tanning facility warning sign requirements;
  • amends rulemaking authority;
  • authorizes a local health department to create requirements for obtaining a permit to operate a tanning facility in excess of the minimum requirements specified by the Utah Department of Health;
  • amends penalties; and makes technical changes.

SSTHHS

 

SB 106S1

Hillyard

Tobacco Settlement Account

Amends the priority of the use of funds in the Tobacco Settlement Restricted Account; and makes technical changes.

 

SEN 3rd Read 

25-0-4

SB 129

Bramble

Unemployment Insurance Modifications

This bill:

  • reduces the maximum unemployment insurance contribution rate for an employer from 9% plus the social contribution rate to 7% plus the social contribution
  • rate beginning in calendar year 2012;
  • caps the social unemployment insurance contribution rate for all employers at .4% for calendar year 2012 only;
  • provides that if the reserve fund is insolvent, the reserve factor is 2.0 until the reserve fund becomes solvent;
  • allows the Unemployment Insurance Division to accept an offer of compromise from an employer or claimant to reduce past due debt under certain circumstances;
  • requires the Unemployment Insurance Division to make rules allowing for an offer of compromise; and makes technical changes.

 

Senate received fiscal note from analyst

SB 132

Knudson

Reauthorization of Radiation Control Act

This bill:  removes the scheduled repeal date for the Radiation Control Act.

SSTNAE

 

SB 133

Knudson

Reauthorization of Mercury Switch Removal Act

This bill: modifies the repeal date of the Mercury Switch Removal Act from July 1, 2012 to 15 July 1, 2017.

SSTNAE