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Utah Senate agrees to fast-track previously vetted bills to second-reading calendar
Summary
The Utah Senate voted to place several bills that had prior committee hearings and floor consideration onto the second-reading calendar under suspension of the rules, after adopting a procedural safeguard to read prior committee and floor vote counts aloud. Members debated whether the practice could set a problematic precedent.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Senate on Jan. 16 approved a set of motions to place previously vetted bills on the bottom of the second-reading calendar, a step intended to speed early-session handling of measures that had already received committee hearings and favorable votes the prior year.
Senator Lane Beatty, presiding as Senate president, explained the process would be limited to bills that had both standing committee hearings and a floor vote in the previous session and said the aim was "to get the system moving, especially at the early part of the session." The motions…
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