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House adopts several rules changes after extended debate on openness and committee powers
Summary
The House debated and passed multiple procedural reforms: HJR 4 to allow different House/Senate rules and public Rules Committee records; HR 1 and HR 3 clarified rules committee powers and limited repeated reconsiderations. Members clashed over recorded votes and the degree of openness.
Lawmakers spent much of the Jan. 16 floor session debating how the Utah House will run its internal process this session, voting to adopt several rule changes and procedural clarifications that adjust the power of the Rules Committee and increase transparency.
House Joint Resolution 4 (HJR 4), presented by Representative Ballantyne and explained by Representative Valentine, allows the two chambers to adopt different internal processes and requires the House Rules Committee to operate publicly with a record of its actions. "Those meetings were open. The press was there. Interested persons were there.…
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