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It was anticipated that Utah lawmakers were going to vote on a comprehensive anti-illegal immigration bill on Friday, but its sponsor moved the vote to next week.
SB81 is expected to easily pass out of the Senate in a final vote Monday. The Senate, in an initial 21-8 vote, approved the bill late this week.
On Friday, after two days of tweaking SB81 on the Senate floor, the bill's sponsor Sen. Bill Hickman, R-St. George, told lawmakers he wanted to give them the weekend to study the revised SB81 because several amendments were made to it.
The Senate on Friday also:
* In a 27-0 vote approved HB262, a bill that would mandate that the state seek reimbursement from the federal government for costs that related to illegal immigration. It now needs the governor's signature to become law.
* In a 25-1 vote supported SB97, which would create an immigration task force made up of 11 lawmakers this year to study current and proposed federal and state laws and policies on illegal immigration. SB97 now heads to the House.
HB262
Would require that the state seek reimbursement for costs of dealing with illegal immigration.
SB97
Would create an immigration task force.