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House adopts new procedural rules requiring committee review and amending motion rules
Summary
The Utah House voted to require most bills to go to a standing committee (HR4) and adopted amendments clarifying which motions are nondebatable and making the motion to table debatable (HR5/HJR16). The measures passed on recorded votes and were placed on the third-reading calendar as appropriate.
The Utah House on January 31 advanced a package of procedural measures to clarify and formalize floor and committee practice.
House Resolution 4, introduced by Representative Howard, would require most bills to be referred to a standing committee for public review, with narrow exemptions and the ability for the House to suspend the rule by majority vote. Howard argued the rule ‘‘gives the body notice that the bill…
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