Utah House convenes special session, adopts prior organization and rules and refers bills including applied-technology measure

The Utah House of Representatives convened a special session on June 20, 2001, at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City to consider a set of measures including creation of the Utah College of Applied Technology and several tax and education-related bills, the governor’s proclamation read into the record said. The chamber confirmed its prior organization and leadership and adopted rules previously approved in the 2001 general session.

The governor’s proclamation, read by the lieutenant governor’s office, invoked Article 7, Section 6 of the Utah Constitution to call the 50th Legislature into special session at 1:30 p.m. "I, Michael O. Leavitt, governor of the state of Utah, by virtue of the authority invested in me by the constitution and the laws of the state of Utah, do by this proclamation call the 50 fourth legislature ... into a special session," the proclamation states. A supplemental proclamation added agenda items including reconsideration of specified February measures, reauthorizing certain Department of Commerce fees, technical corrections to criminal and judicial codes, and matters relating to motor-vehicle registration for manufacturer-provided vehicles at public events.

Representative Garn moved that the House "continue with the same organization for the first special session of the 50 fourth legislature as was constituted during the annual general session," and the motion passed on a voice vote. The Speaker then appointed the clerk and named a delegation to notify the Senate that the House was organized and ready to do business. The clerk read the lieutenant governor’s certificate confirming the proclamation and certifying that House membership had not changed since the general session.

Representative Hatch moved that the House adopt the same House rules and joint rules for the special session as had been adopted in February; that motion also passed without debate. The Speaker subsequently named Representatives Glenway, Peggy Wallace and Carl Duckworth to a committee to wait on the Senate, and named Representatives Don Bush, Carl Saunders and Cindy Beshear to a committee to wait on the governor.

The House suspended the reading of full bill titles on introduction and authorized that suspension to continue unless a member requests a full reading, by a motion from Representative Garn that passed on a voice vote. The clerk then introduced House bills HB1001 through HB1006 and HCR101 as read for first consideration and referred them to the Rules Committee. The bills announced into the record included: HB1001 (notice by school to custodial and noncustodial parent), HB1002 (criminal law amendments), HB1003 (applied technology education governance), HB1004 (Department of Commerce fee approval), HB1005 (renewable energy systems tax credits) and HB1006 (addition of interest to federal taxable income), along with HCR101, a resolution on waste disposal; sponsors were read as spoken in the record.

Before recessing, Representative Hatch moved that the House recess for a five-minute rules committee meeting in Room 303; the motion passed and the House went into a brief recess. No floor votes with roll-call tallies were recorded on substantive bills during the portion of the session captured in the transcript.

What happens next: the newly referred bills will be considered by the Rules Committee. The record in this transcript ends with the House recessing for that committee work.