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2026 floor votes

S.B. 242: Transportation Amendments

4 recorded floor votes in the 2026 General Session. The bill's official page has its text, sponsors, committee votes and full history.

About this bill

Signed by the governor on March 25, 2026. This bill amends provisions related to transportation, including road usage charge, towing dispatch, and local option sales tax use.

  • Allows a political subdivision to prohibit a mobile business from operating on a street or sidewalk that is temporarily closed for certain events
  • Requires commercial electric vehicles with a gross weight of 6,001 pounds or more to pay a road usage charge with a higher road usage charge cap
  • Exempts buses operating on the bus's planned route to temporarily cross lane lines to stop at a bus stop
  • Exempts the Department of Transportation from certain requirements related to receiving a conveyance of real property
  • Provides a sales tax exemption for construction materials purchased by the Department of Transportation for certain public transit capital development projects
  • Amends certain allowed uses of local option sales taxes for transportation

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Wayne A. Harper

Utah Senate, February 23, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on Second · 2nd Sub. SB 242
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 23 Nays 6 Abs 0
Official record

Yes (23)

22 Republican, 1 Democratic

No (6)

1 Forward, 5 Democratic

Utah Senate, February 26, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. SB 242
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 20 Nays 7 Abs 2
Official record

Yes (20)

20 Republican

No (7)

1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

2 Republican

Utah House, March 6, 2026

Senate 3rd Reading, Final Passage · 4th Sub. SB 242
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 55 Nays 14 N/V 6
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (53)

48 Republican, 5 Democratic

No (13)

9 Democratic, 4 Republican

Absent or not voting (5)

5 Republican

Utah Senate, March 6, 2026

Concurrence, Final Passage · 4th Sub. SB 242
Result as recorded: Ayes 18 Nays 9 Abs 2
Official record

Yes (18)

18 Republican

No (9)

2 Republican, 1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

2 Republican

Votes are listed as the Utah Legislature's floor vote records show them. Names are matched to today's roster, so members who have since left the Legislature aren't in the lists; the totals are the record's own. Committee votes and voice votes aren't included.