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House committee advances technical fix to municipal vacancy tie-breaking
Summary
The House Political Subdivisions Committee on Feb. 14 advanced a substitute to HB 420 to standardize how cities fill tied municipal-office vacancies, replacing ad-hoc coin flips with a public lot-drawing procedure and clarifying mayoral tie-breaking and open-meeting disclosure requirements.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House Political Subdivisions Committee on Feb. 14 unanimously adopted and recommended favorably a substitute to HB 420, a bill that standardizes how cities fill vacancies when multiple candidates tie.
Sponsor Representative Stoddard told the committee the measure is a technical fix to a drafting problem from last year that unintentionally ran afoul of Indian gaming law. “We fixed that problem. We now have a…
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