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House assigns early session bills to committees, passes mechanic’s-lien technical fix
Summary
The House printed and assigned a large slate of bills to standing committees and approved a technical amendment to mechanics-lien law (HB 234) as well as an amendment to HB 5 on school uniform implementation. Several bills were placed on reading calendars under suspension of the rules.
The Utah House spent a substantial portion of the floor session printing and assigning a broad set of bills to standing committees and moving multiple interim committee bills onto the reading calendar.
The Rules Committee listed dozens of bills to be assigned to specific standing committees (for example: HB 44, HB 90, HB 110, HB 191, HB 111, HB 209, HB 240 on public education capital outlay, HB 244, HB 13, HB 109, HB 115, HB 246, HB 258 and others). Committee assignments were announced on the floor so that bills could proceed to committee review.
On specific floor actions, Representative Kevin Garn explained HB 234, a technical mechanics-lien conforming amendment to a 2001 statute that corrected an enrollment error concerning a letter-of-credit reference; the House passed HB 234 by voice/recorded vote, 73–0, and referred it to the Senate. Representative Karen Morgan moved and the House adopted an amendment to HB 5 clarifying the definition of principal (to include a chief administrator) and allowing principals to exempt students from a school uniform policy for extenuating circumstances; that amendment was adopted on the floor. Representative DeMar Bowman introduced HB 6 to rename the Criminal Identification Bureau to the State Bureau of Investigation to better reflect state-level duties.
Members also placed many bills on the third-reading calendar under suspension of the rules and signaled which bills will be considered in the coming days. House leadership welcomed staff and pages and completed routine organizational business before recessing.
