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Utah Senate adjourns after ceremonial recognitions; interns present ramen gifts
Summary
The Utah Senate concluded its 2017 session with senators exchanging thanks, honoring staff and clerks, hearing from interns who presented packets of ramen and notes, and passing procedural motions to resolve into and dissolve a Committee of the Whole before adjourning by voice vote.
On the final day of the 2017 legislative session, senators used closing time to recognize colleagues, staff and interns, approve procedural housekeeping motions and adjourn. Senator Okerlund moved that the Senate "resolve us to a committee of the whole," a procedural motion that passed on a voice vote. Later he moved to dissolve the Committee of the Whole; that motion passed as well. In the final minutes a motion to adjourn was made and adopted by voice vote.
Senators offered extended thanks to legislative staff, fiscal analysts, legislative research and general counsel and to their spouses. The Senate president praised a long legislative calendar and singled out chairs and staff members for their work on the budget and on particular policy areas. Senators also offered lighter remarks, including an on‑floor recognition for Senator Dayton as a joking "Queen of the Water."
Legislative interns staged a short presentation and handed each senator a package of Top Ramen with a personalized blue note explaining the reason for the gift (notes ranged from practical jokes to expressions of appreciation). The atmosphere in the chamber during the gift exchange was informal and celebratory.
Formal procedural actions recorded in the transcript included the move to Committee of the Whole, the dissolution of that committee, and the final adjournment motion; each passed by voice vote as called by the presiding officer.
