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S. 1453 — University of Utah Research Park Act

2%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

University of Utah Research Park Act — on the calendar, quiet for 115 days; 8% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

8%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
27%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 39% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 8% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 60 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 44–90 (quartiles 51–72). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 39% (simple-majority P = 91%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference5% 63 [44–94] 90%
passage95% 60 [44–89] 91%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mike Lee (R). Latest action (2026-02-11): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 337.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).