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Floor fight over credit-union bill returns measure to Business & Labor Committee
Summary
Representative LeVar Christiansen pressed to return a credit-union code bill to the Business & Labor Committee after members of the Rules Committee moved to reassess its handling; proponents described the Rules action as procedural overreach while others defended it as appropriate under the rules.
A contentious floor exchange on Tuesday led the Utah House to vote to return House Bill 277 — a measure relating to revisions to the Utah Credit Union Act — from the Rules Committee back to the Business & Labor Committee for further consideration.
Representative LeVar Christiansen, the sponsor, told the chamber he had worked with credit-union representatives on the draft and said he was not consulted when the Rules Committee moved to withdraw the bill from the Business & Labor agenda. “I have absolutely no axe to grind…
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