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First Substitute H.B. 307

Representative Raymond W. Short proposes to substitute the following bill:


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LEGISLATIVE INTERIM COMMITTEES

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2000 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Sponsor: Raymond W. Short

             5      AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE; DEFINING LEGISLATIVE INTERIM
             6      COMMITTEES; AND OUTLINING THEIR DUTIES.
             7      This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
             8      AMENDS:
             9          36-12-1, as last amended by Chapter 47, Laws of Utah 1985
             10          36-12-5, as last amended by Chapter 226, Laws of Utah 1998
             11      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             12          Section 1. Section 36-12-1 is amended to read:
             13           36-12-1. Definitions.
             14          As used in this chapter:
             15          [(5) ] (1) (a) "Interim committees" means legislative committees that are formed from the
             16      membership of each house to function between sessions of the Legislature in order to study
             17      subjects of legislative concern.
             18          (b) "Interim committees" includes a commission, committee, council, task force, board,
             19      or panel, in which legislative participation is required by law, which committee functions between
             20      sessions of the Legislature.
             21          (2) "Legislative director" means the director of the Office of Legislative Research and
             22      General Counsel, the legislative fiscal analyst, or the legislative auditor general.
             23          [(1)] (3) "Major political party" means either of the two political parties having the greatest
             24      number of members elected to the two houses of the Legislature.
             25          [(3)] (4) "Professional legislative staff" means the legislative directors and the members


             26      of their staffs.
             27          [(4)] (5) "Standing committees" means legislative committees organized under the rules
             28      of each house of the Legislature for the duration of the legislative biennial term to consider
             29      proposed legislation[, but for the purposes of]. As used in this chapter, "standing committees"
             30      excludes appropriations committees, appropriations subcommittees, and rules committees [on
             31      rules].
             32          Section 2. Section 36-12-5 is amended to read:
             33           36-12-5. Duties of interim committees.
             34          (1) [It] Except as otherwise provided by law, it is the duty of each interim committee:
             35          (a) to receive study assignments by resolution from the [appropriate house of the]
             36      Legislature;
             37          (b) to receive study assignments from its corresponding Senate or House Management
             38      Committee, created under Section 36-12-6 ;
             39          (c) to place matters on its study agenda [upon notification to] after requesting approval of
             40      the study from its Senate or House Management Committee[. If a study], which request [has], if
             41      not [been] disapproved [by the appropriate management committee] within 30 days of receipt of
             42      the request, the interim committee shall consider it approved and may proceed with the requested
             43      study;
             44          (d) to request research reports from the professional legislative staff pertaining to the
             45      committee's agenda of study;
             46          (e) to investigate and study possibilities for improvement in government services within
             47      its subject area;
             48          (f) to accept reports from the professional legislative staff and make recommendations for
             49      legislative action with respect to such reports; and
             50          (g) to prepare and recommend to the Legislature a legislative program in response to the
             51      committee's study agenda.
             52          (2) [Reports] Except as otherwise provided by law, reports and recommendations of the
             53      interim committees shall be completed and made public prior to any legislative session at which
             54      the reports and recommendations are submitted. A copy of the reports and recommendations shall
             55      be mailed to each member or member-elect of the Legislature, to each elective state officer, and
             56      to the state library.


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