The Utah Senate passed a much debated update to the state’s hate crimes law Tuesday on a vote of 18-11, sending it to the House.
Two senators flipped their votes after supporting the bill on Monday: Ronald Winterton, R-Vernal, and Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan. Still, SB103 received the support of 12 Republicans and all six Senate Democrats in its final Senate vote.
With just more than a week left in the session, this is the furthest a hate crimes proposal has made it through the Legislature since failing in the Senate in 2016, and its bipartisan approval is seen as a major victory.