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Utah House introduces bills, adopts committee report and recesses amid IT outage
Summary
The Utah House read several bills for the first time and the Government Operations Committeereport was adopted and placed on the third-reading calendar; the House recessed for 30 minutes because of an IT outage and scheduled caucus meetings.
The Utah House of Representatives convened and on Jan. 28, 2013 read multiple bills for a first time, accepted a committee report recommending three bills for further consideration, and recessed for 30 minutes after members reported phone and internet problems.
The reading clerk announced first readings of several measures, including House Bill 92 (factual innocence assistance amendments), House Bill 93 (traffic violations amendments), House Bill 288 (Department of Transportation amendments) and House Bill 289 (fireworks amendments). "House Bill 92, factual innocence assistance amendments," the reading clerk said as the clerk read each bill title aloud.
The Government Operations Committee submitted a favorable report dated 01/28/2013 on three bills: House Bill 38 (campaign contribution amendments by Representative Powell), House Bill 44 (election polling by Representative Hughes) and House Bill 262 (unaffiliated voter amendments by Representative Hall). The reading clerk concluded the report "Respectfully, Jack Draxler, committee chair." A motion was made and the presiding officer called for the question; members voiced "aye," no further discussion was recorded, and the presiding officer declared the committee report adopted. The clerk announced that House Bill 38, House Bill 44 and House Bill 262 were read for the second time and placed at the bottom of the third-reading calendar.
Later in the session Representative Dee moved "that we recess for about 30 minutes while we take care of the IT problem, and the Republican majority caucus will be caucusing in the caucus room." The minority caucus confirmed it would also meet in its caucus room. After brief procedural remarks and a voice vote, the presiding officer declared the motion to recess passed and the House recessed for 30 minutes.
The session record shows the interruptions were logistical: multiple members reported phone and internet outages. The House left the agenda items on the third-reading calendar to return after the recess; no final legislative actions on the introduced bills were recorded in the transcript provided.
