AGENDA

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS INTERIM COMMITTEE

UTAH LEGISLATURE

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 • 8:30 a.m. • Room 450 State Capitol Building

1. Committee Business

· Call to order

· Approval of the minutes of the November 16, 2016, meeting

2. Report on the State Facilities Energy Efficiency Fund

Utah Code Section 63A-5-603 requires the Division of Facilities Construction and Management to report to the committee annually on actual savings resulting from energy efficiency measures implemented using loan money from the State Facility Energy Efficiency Fund.

· Staff presentation

· Bianca Shama, Energy Director, Division of Facilities Construction and Management

· Committee discussion

3. Open and Public Meetings Act Training

The Open and Public Meetings Act requires that members of a public body be “provided with annual training on the requirements of [the Open and Public Meetings Act]” (Section 52-4-104).

· Staff presentation

· Committee discussion

4. Interim Planning

· Study items and prospective interim schedule – committee chairs

· Committee action to open committee bill files

· Entities with statutorily directed legislative participation

· Committee discussion and action

5. Long-Term Planning: Voting Equipment Selection Committee

Interim Rule IR2-2-103 requires each interim committee to devote part of its May interim meeting to long-term planning. The committee will discuss the work of the Voting Equipment Selection Committee, created in accordance with Section 20A-5-402.7, in anticipation of the long-term purchase of new voting equipment across the state.

· Mark Thomas, Director of Elections, Office of the Lieutenant Governor

· Committee discussion

6. Code Simplification

Study whether to create a work group or task force to find ways to simplify or reduce the state code.

· Rep. Jon E. Stanard

· Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik, Chair, and Sen. Dominick Moreno, Vice Chair, Colorado Statutory Revision Committee

· Committee discussion

7. Voter Participation

The committee will discuss certain proposals to increase voter participation in the state related to 2017 legislation H.B. 349 and H.B. 204.

· Presidential Primary Funding - Rep. Patrice M. Arent

· Committee discussion

· Ranked-Choice Voting - Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck

· Committee discussion

8. Report from Government Records Ombudsman

Section 63A-12-111 requires the government records ombudsman to report to the committee annually regarding the work performed by the government records ombudsman during the previous year.

· Rosemary Cundiff, Government Records Ombudsman

· Committee discussion

9. Other Items/Adjourn