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House approves bill letting Legislative Management Committee direct counsel in litigation after heated debate
Summary
After extensive floor debate and a failed amendment to limit delegation, the Utah House approved Senate Bill 152 to let the Legislative Management Committee authorize the Legislative General Counsel to represent the Legislature in litigation by majority vote; the bill passed 70-5.
The Utah House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 152 on the floor after an extended debate over whether leadership should have authority to direct legislative counsel in litigation. The bill authorizes the Legislative Management Committee — a bipartisan body of House and Senate leaders — to ask Legislative Council or the Legislative General Counsel to engage on behalf of the Legislature by a majority vote of that committee.
Representative David Clark, the House sponsor, said the bill “gives clarity and focus to a practice that we have practiced” and framed the…
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