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House adopts rules committee report, advances dozens of bills to third-reading calendar
Summary
Under a motion by Representative Michael Noel, the House adopted the rules committee report by voice vote and directed that the listed bills be read for a second time and placed on the third-reading calendar; the report assigns many bills to standing committees.
The Utah House adopted the rules committee report on Jan. 22, 2018, advancing a long list of bills and placing them on the House third-reading calendar.
Representative Michael Noel, identified in the rules committee report as committee chair, moved adoption of the report "as read," asking that the bills on the report be read a second time and placed for third reading. "I move adoption of the rules committee report as read," Noel said during floor proceedings. The House approved the motion by voice vote; multiple "Aye" responses were recorded in the transcript and the Speaker announced that the committee's work for the morning was concluded.
The report included recommended committee assignments for many bills. Examples named in the report and read into the record included bills covering public education budget amendments (HB 1), public education recodification (HB 10 and HB 11), Medicaid waiver for mental health crisis services (HB 42), juvenile justice modifications (HB 132), and a broad set of health, safety, taxation and regulatory measures. The rules committee report also listed House joint and concurrent resolutions and other measures to be assigned to standing committees.
Clerk statements confirmed that the bills were read for the first time and referred to house rules; the adopted motion instructed that the bills be read for a second time and placed on the third-reading calendar, consistent with the committee’s recommendations.
The motion was taken and adopted by voice; no roll-call tally or named vote counts appear in the record provided. The House recessed later in the morning and returned to other housekeeping and announcements.
Not all individual committee assignments or sponsor pairings were discussed on the floor beyond what the rules report listed; members should consult the official committee report or the House journal for a complete listing and any amendments.
