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Senate amends vacancy bill to empower parties to narrow nominees, keeps governor as appointing authority
Summary
After extended debate, the Senate amended Substitute House Bill 77 to let parties use their usual nominating processes to narrow nominees to 1–3 names, but restored the governor as the official who makes the final appointment; the amended bill passed and will return to the House.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 26 approved changes to the process for filling midterm legislative vacancies, adopting a substitute that lets political parties use their usual delegate or nomination processes to narrow replacement candidates but preserving the governor’s authority to make the final appointment.
Senator Stevenson described the committee substitute as allowing parties to use "the same process" they use to nominate candidates in ordinary elections to narrow a field to two or even one nominee. "If we can trust the…
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