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Utah House approves procedural motions, appoints committees to notify governor and Senate of adjournment
Summary
The Utah House approved several procedural motions, including striking enacting clauses from remaining calendar items and authorizing the Speaker to appoint committees to notify the governor and the Senate that the chamber has finished business and is prepared to adjourn sine die. Committees were named and the House awaited a fiscal note on an income tax bill.
The Utah House of Representatives approved a set of procedural motions during a short floor session, including a motion to strike the enacting clause from bills and resolutions remaining on the calendars and authorizations for committees to notify the governor and the Senate that the chamber has completed its business and is prepared to adjourn sine die.
The first motion, introduced by an unidentified member, was "I move to strike the enacting clause in all house and senate bills and resolutions remaining on the house and senate calendars," and it passed after a brief, no-discussion voice vote. The Speaker then called for additional motions related to adjournment.
Representative Urquhart moved "that the House authorize the Speaker to appoint a committee to wait upon the governor to inform him that the House of Representatives has finished its business and is prepared to adjourn sine die." The House approved that motion, and the Speaker appointed Representatives Harper, Wallace and McGee to the delegation that will meet a representative of the governor.
Later, Representative Alexander moved that the House authorize the Speaker to appoint a committee to wait upon the Senate to inform that honorable body the House had completed its business and was prepared to adjourn sine die; that motion also passed and the Speaker named Representatives Wyatt, Frank and "Representative shirt left" to the committee.
The Speaker directed Chief Clerk Sandy Tenney "to read, revise, and make minor corrections to the Bailey House Journal and to be responsible for certifying the bound copy as the accurate record of the proceedings of [the session spoken in the transcript]," instructing staff to complete the official record.
House leadership said they were waiting on committee reports and on the Senate’s return. The Speaker reported the Senate was awaiting confirmation of a fiscal note on an income tax bill that included House amendments, noting "their representative Bigelow has that fiscal note." No final Senate action was recorded in the House transcript.
The session included brief housekeeping: members were told the sergeant-at-arms had distributed codebooks and given guidance about returning or keeping those volumes depending on whether members expect to return to a future session.
A delegation reported that it had visited the governor’s staff and been informed the governor had no further communications. The Speaker thanked the members appointed to the committees and reiterated that the House was waiting on the Senate before final adjournment.
The House’s remaining procedural steps, according to the transcript, were to await the Senate’s actions and any outstanding fiscal confirmations before concluding adjournment sine die.
