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House advances multiple committee recommendations and consent-calendar items
Summary
The House adopted numerous committee reports and moved several bills onto third-reading and consent calendars, including a string of bills passed unanimously on the consent calendar. Notable items advanced include HB118 (residency requirements substitute), HB327 (administrative rules timing), HB112 (Victims Council codification), HB223 (voter-information website), and campaign-contribution amendments (HB246).
The House spent substantial floor time receiving standing-committee reports from education, judiciary, law enforcement, natural resources, retirement, transportation, government operations, political subdivisions, revenue and taxation, and workforce services committees. Committee chairs summarized recommendations and the House adopted corrected or standard committee reports across multiple policy areas.
Several bills were placed on the consent calendar or passed with minimal debate. Representative Clark summarized HB327 (state agency timely adoption of administrative rules), explaining the bill would require agencies to justify delays beyond 180 days; the House approved HB327 59-0 and referred it to the Senate. Other unanimous or near-unanimous consent votes included SB122 (administrative rules reauthorization, 72-0), HB112 (Utah Council on Victims of Crime, 72-0), HB223 (voter-information website, 70-0), and HB246 (campaign contribution amendments, 71-0). Committees and the rules report listed many additional bills to be assigned to standing committees.
