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Utah Senate fast-tracks package of repealer and technical cleanup bills
Summary
On Jan. 15 the Utah Senate suspended rules and sent a slate of short repealer and technical bills (including SB5, SB6, SB9, SB10 as amended, SB13, SB14, SB15 and SB18) to the House; most passed by overwhelming margins after brief sponsor explanations.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 15 suspended its usual timelines and advanced a package of largely technical repealer bills and cleanups, sending each to the House for further consideration.
Senators moved repeatedly under suspension of the rules to consider several measures for second and third reading the same day. Sponsor statements characterized the items as minor statutory housekeeping. "This bill has a whopping 15 lines in it," said Senator Spencer while introducing SB5, a repeal of lapsed disaster relief appropriations from 1991.
Why it matters: The bills remove obsolete code…
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