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Utah House completes closing business: motions to strike enacting clauses, committee appointments and adjournment
Summary
On March 10, 2011, the Utah House of Representatives passed a sequence of closing motions — striking enacting clauses on remaining bills, authorizing committees to notify the Governor and Senate, directing journal certification, and adjourning sine die. Vote counts were not specified in the transcript.
The Utah House of Representatives completed its final business for the 2011 General Session on March 10, 2011, passing several procedural motions and appointing committees to notify the Governor and the Senate before adjourning sine die.
Representative Dee moved to "strike the enacting clause" of all Senate and House bills and resolutions remaining on the House calendar and to refer those matters to the House Rules Committee; the motion was put to a voice vote and the Speaker declared that the motion passed. The transcript does not record a numeric roll-call tally for this voice vote.
Representative Dye moved that the Speaker be authorized to appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the House had finished its business and was prepared to adjourn. The motion passed on a voice vote and the Speaker appointed Representatives Bill Wright, Todd Keiser and Jackie Biskupski to that committee.
Representative Litvak moved that the Speaker be authorized to appoint a committee to notify the Senate that the House had completed its business; that motion likewise passed by voice vote and the Speaker named Representatives Rebecca Edwards, Jeremy Peterson and Mark Wheatley to serve.
The Speaker directed Sandy Tenney to read, revise and make minor corrections to the House journals and to certify the indexed and bound copy as the accurate record of the proceedings of the 2011 General Session of the Legislature.
A delegation from the Senate, including Senator Valentine, notified the House that the Senate had completed its business and was prepared to adjourn. Representative Bill Wright reported that the committee had waited upon the Governor, who was present and requested an opportunity to address the House.
A motion to adjourn sine die was made later in the proceeding (the transcript identifies the mover as "Representative D?"), the motion was called and passed by voice vote, and the Speaker declared the House adjourned sine die. Because the transcript labels the mover ambiguously as "Representative D?", the article uses the label "Unidentified Representative (transcript shows 'Representative D?')" rather than assigning a specific name.
The transcript records the outcomes (motions passed) but does not provide member-by-member vote records or numerical tallies for the voice votes.
