Sierra Club Utah Chapter
Utah Senate Scorecard: 2007 General Session
Bills   Correct
    Vote Absence
Senators HJR1S HB 97 HB 192 SB13S3 SB 29 SB 155 SB 183 Total Count Average
0=absent; 1=yea; 2=nay
correct vote = 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Bell 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Christensen 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 33%
Bramble 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Buttars 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Davis 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Dayton 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Dmitrich 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Eastman 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 3 1 50%
Fife 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 0 57%
Goodfellow 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 0 57%
Greiner 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Hickman 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Hillyard 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 50%
Jenkins 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Jones 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5 0 71%
Killpack 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 40%
Knudson 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 0 57%
Madsen 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Mayne 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 0 57%
McCoy 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 7 0 100%
Niederhauser 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 3 1 50%
Peterson 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Romero 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 6 0 86%
Stephenson 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 33%
Stowell 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Valentine 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4 67%
VanTassell 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Waddoups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
Walker 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 43%
correct vote = 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
HJR 1 S Joint Resolution on Groundwater in Snake Valley urges the governor to include a citizen from Snake
Valley in the negotiations over groundwater division & to wait for scientific studies to be completed.
HB 97 Motor Vehicle Registration Checkoff mandates the use of state facilities for diverting registration form
contributions to groups advocating & prosecuting litigation to force the opening of public land to ATVs.
HB 192 Revoking Authority to Use State Lands repeals decades-old laws authorizing the Fish & Wildlife Service
to manage state-owned land inside the Bear River Wildlife Refuge.  A badly-conceived bargaining ploy.
SB 13 S3 Tax Incentives for Alternate Power Generation provides income tax credits for both business &
individual installations of wind, solar, geothermal or biomass electricity generating facilities.
SB 29 Instream Flow to Protect Trout Habitat Act would have created a new category of temporary water
right that could be held for up to 10 years by non-profits to benefit 3 species of trout.
SB 155 Waste Amendments exempts the current Energy Solutions radioactive waste disposal site
in Tooele County from certain approval and siting requirements.
SB 183 Restrictions on Designation of Wetlands prevents municipalities from designating or protecting 
through zoning any wetlands not recognized as such by the US Army Corps of Engineers.