SALT LAKE CITY — A controversial illegal immigration enforcement bill modeled after Arizona legislation passed Friday in the Utah House of Representatives.
HB70, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, was approved 58-15 after nearly two hours of often impassioned debate on the House floor. Two Democrats joined the GOP majority and one Republican crossed party lines in the decidedly partisan vote.
It now moves to the Senate where there's an effort to put together a comprehensive bill that may combine enforcement with a work permit program.
"I think it will probably get held up in the Senate for awhile while we get it all worked out," said Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City.
Of the enforcement-only bill itself, Jenkins said it has been "watered down enough" that it could fare well in the Senate.
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