SALT LAKE CITY — Should cars and bicycles be allowed to proceed through a red light after stopping if no one else is around?
Members of the House Transportation Committee are slated to consider two bills that would allow riders and drivers to do just that on Thursday. HB0151, titled Traffic Flow Amendments, deals with cars at red lights, letting drivers go through the light if no one else is approaching and no pedestrians are in the intersection. HB0161applies to bicycle traffic at intersections, also allowing people to proceed with caution.
Other issues expected to be discussed at the Statehouse during the day include:
• Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, said she plans to file a bill to create a data "baseline" so Utah can start tracking environmental impact in the Utah Inland Port Authority's jurisdiction, about 16,000 acres in Salt Lake City's northwest quadrant.
• Members of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee are scheduled to discuss SB99, sales tax amendments that lower the rate of the state sales and use tax on items other than food, food ingredients and residential fuel.
• The House Judiciary Committee is considering HB100, which would establish the Sexual Violence Protection Act to create a sexual violence protective order that could be placed on the statewide warrant system.
Here's what happened on Jan. 29, the second day of the 2019 session:
- Gov. Gary Herbert delivered his annual State of the State address Wednesday night to the Utah Legislature, describing 2018 as a year fraught with drought and wildfires but teeming with faith and courage.
- The Senate voted 22-7 on Wednesday to advance SB96 to a final vote, a controversial replacement for the voter-approved ballot initiative expanding Medicaid.
- Lawmakers on Wednesday advanced HB58, legislation that would formally create a committee to review opioid overdose deaths in hopes of bolstering the state's data and combatting the opioid crisis.
from Deseret News http://bit.ly/2HEx13S
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