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Panel advances five-bill recodification of Title 17 and opens separate file for substantive changes
Summary
Staff updated the committee on a multi-bill recodification of Title 17 (county code) that reorganizes and modernizes the code without substantive policy changes; the committee also opened a separate committee bill file to consider substantive policy changes discovered during the recod process.
Legislative counsel told the Political Subdivisions Interim Committee Aug. 20 that the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel is recodifying Title 17 of the Utah Code into multiple bills to reorganize, modernize, and clarify county law without making substantive changes. Ruth Ann Ogi Frost, legislative counsel, said a recodification reorganizes outdated language, updates drafting style, and eliminates legalese but generally does not make substantive policy changes. "We don't make substantive changes in a recod," she said. Frost…
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