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House keeps 1991 leadership, adopts prior rules and assigns dozens of bills to committees
Summary
The Utah House approved continuing last session's leadership, adopted the same house and joint rules for 1992, suspended reading full bill titles for routine first readings, and assigned a wide set of prefiled bills to standing committees for review.
Speaker H. Craig Moody and members completed organizational business on the House floor, approving several procedural motions to speed legislative work and assigning prefiled bills to committee.
The House voted by voice to "continue with the same organization" of the speakership and party leadership as in 1991 after a motion from Representative Bishop; the motion was declared passed. Representative Mel Brown successfully moved that Elder David B. Haight's invocation and the Speaker's opening remarks be printed in the House journal.
Representative Adams moved and the House approved adopting the same House and joint rules for the 1992 session as were used in 1991. Citing efficiency, the House then approved a motion (moved by Representative Bishop) to suspend reading the full formal titles of bills and resolutions on first reading and during routine calendar actions for the remainder of the session, unless any member requests a full title.
The Rules Committee reported that several bills (including House bills 22, 30, 34, 51, and certain resolutions) were cleared after fiscal and legal review and recommended they be placed on the third-reading calendar; the House approved that placement. The Speaker then announced detailed committee referrals, assigning groups of prefiled bills to standing committees including Business, Labor & Economic Development; Education; Energy & Natural Resources; Health & Environment; Human Services; Judiciary; Revenue & Taxation; State & Local Affairs; and Transportation & Public Safety. The assignments covered a wide range of issues from veterans preference and property tax reclassification to vehicle emissions, education programs, and public safety measures.
All procedural motions that are recorded in the transcript were approved by voice vote; no roll-call tallies are recorded in the available text. The speaker urged bill sponsors to be prepared when their measures reach committees so those committees can proceed promptly.
Next steps: the House recessed for lunch and planned to reconvene at 2:30 p.m.; the governor's State of the State address was scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
