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House adopts changes to compensation process for legislators after debate over accountability
Utah House of Representatives · February 12, 1999
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Summary
HB113 adjusts how legislative compensation recommendations from a commission are implemented; after debate about lawmakers' responsibility to vote on their pay, the House adopted amendments and passed the bill 49–22, referring it to the Senate.
Representative Raymond W. Short presented House Bill 113 to revise the Legislative Compensation Commission process so that commission recommendations become the default unless the Legislature acts to change them. Short said the change was…
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