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Senate adopts joint-rule changes to prioritize research requests and manage prefiled bill workload
Summary
The Senate debated and adopted amendments to HJR 8 creating a Research and General Counsel Subcommittee to prioritize legislators’ research/legislation requests and to manage workload when requests exceed informal limits; supporters said it helps staff workload, opponents warned it could curb individual members' flexibility.
The Utah Senate debated and moved forward amendments to HJR 8, a joint-rule resolution that would create a Research and General Counsel Subcommittee to prioritize requests for legislation during the interim and to give rules committees discretion to prioritize when a legislator files large numbers of requests.
Proponents said the subcommittee is a management tool to control workload and allocate…
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