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House debates and amends filing-deadline bill as sponsor frames it a 'management tool'
Summary
Lawmakers revived and amended Senate Bill 1, a proposal to require agencies to submit legislation requests by Dec. 1 to reduce in-session filings. Members adopted multiple amendments altering drafting-approval thresholds and debated priorities for agency versus legislator requests before the bill passed and was sent back to the Senate.
The Utah House resumed consideration of Senate Bill 1 on Feb. 9, 1995, reviving the measure after a motion to reconsider carried and adopting several amendments before passing the bill and returning it to the Senate for concurrence.
The sponsor (unnamed in the floor transcript) described the bill as "simply a management tool" intended to reduce the number of bills introduced during the session by pushing agency-requested bills to an earlier, Dec. 1, filing deadline. The sponsor told members the policy had, as an…
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