But whether House Bill 202 - now a mere shadow of its former self - will win Senate approval is uncertain.

The Senate Rules committee on Friday substituted the bill with a version that sponsoring Rep. Wayne Harper, R-West Jordan, says was crafted to win favor with Utah's Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS).

The latest edition no longer seeks to remove threatened child abuse and repeated neglect as conditions for state intervention. It has the votes to make it out of Rules Committee.

DCFS Director Richard Anderson describes it as one of several bills this session that neither help nor hurt the state's ability to investigate and prosecute child abuse.

But Sen. Carlene Walker is among Republicans who wonder if the bill does nothing, why pass it?

"It's 100 pages long and we have two days left," said the Cottonwood Heights Republican.