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House receives multiple Senate transmittals, adopts committee reports and re-prioritizes calendar
Summary
Clerk read numerous Senate transmittals and standing committee reports; the House adopted committee reports by voice votes, referred many bills to third reading or consent calendars, scheduled a Rules meeting and later wiped and reprioritized the boards, placing several bills on the third-reading calendar.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House opened its Feb. 18, 1992, afternoon session by receiving multiple communications from the Senate and by hearing a series of standing committee reports.
The clerk read Senate transmittals including S.B. 143, S.B. 148 (juvenile offender and victim treatment funding), substitute S.B. 114 (appropriations), S.B. 137, S.B. 149 (higher education bond amendment), S.B. 157 (disability insurance amendments), and several joint resolutions. The clerk also reported that certain House bills returned from the Senate (H.B. 77, H.B. 16 and H.B. 160) had been read and signed by the Speaker in open session and entered into the journal.
Committee chairs from Education and Revenue read reports recommending that many bills be placed on the third-reading calendar, emergency/consent calendar, or sent to Rules — for example, H.B. 254, H.B. 275 (substitute), H.B. 211 (capital projects review), S.B. 87 (property tax), and substitute S.B. 75. Following adoption of the committee reports by voice votes, the Speaker and the Rules leadership scheduled a Rules Committee meeting and later led the House to wipe the calendars and place a prioritized set of bills on the third-reading calendar.
Representative Adams announced the Rules Committee meeting time and the Speaker reminded members that the floor would reconvene at 8 a.m. the following morning. The procedural steps set the agenda for immediate scheduling and signaled which bills the House will prioritize for final consideration.
The administrative actions set by the House — referrals to Rules, third-reading placements and the calendar wipe — are procedural but determine when and whether bills will receive final floor votes in the near term.
