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Senate committee advances bills on water, elections, trusts and agency funding
Summary
The Senate Government Operations Committee advanced multiple bills — including limits on new nonfunctional turf in the Great Salt Lake Basin, election-notice and ballot-neutrality cleanups, trust-law clarifications and budgetary measures — after extended public comment and technical amendments.
The Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee met on Feb. 27 to consider a batch of bills affecting elections, water use, trust administration and state budgeting, advancing several measures to the full Senate.
Representative Shepherd’s election clean-up bill (House Bill 361, fourth substitute) drew sustained attention from clerks and elections staff but earned broad support after technical fixes and an amendment from Senator Stratton. Ryan Cowley, director of elections in the lieutenant governor’s office, told the committee the measure consolidates and aligns notice and filing rules, makes certain deadlines business days and centralizes several certification steps to reduce confusion for clerks.
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