S.B. 5012

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GUBERNATORIAL AND LEGISLATIVE
2 TASK FORCE ON ALTERNATIVE REVENUE
3 SOURCES FOR WATER FUNDING
4 2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
5 STATE OF UTAH
6 Sponsor: Leonard M. Blackham
7 This act creates the Gubernatorial and Legislative Alternative Revenue Sources for Water
8 Funding Task Force. The act provides for the task force membership, task force chairs,
9 compensation of task force members, voting, staff support, task force duties and
10 responsibilities, and task force reporting responsibilities. The act appropriates $17,700 from
11 the General Fund for fiscal year 2002-03. The act provides an immediate effective date. The
12 act is repealed November 30, 2003.
13 This act enacts uncodified material.
14 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
15 Section 1. Gubernatorial and Legislative Alternative Revenue Sources for Water
16 Funding Task Force -- Creation -- Membership -- Voting -- Interim rules followed --
17 Compensation -- Staff -- Reporting.
18 (1) The Gubernatorial and Legislative Alternative Revenue Sources for Water Funding
19 Task Force is created to determine and identify alternative revenue sources for water funding.
20 (2) The task force shall consist of the following members:
21 (a) one member of the Senate who cochairs the State Water Development Commission;
22 (b) one member of the House of Representatives who cochairs the State Water
23 Development Commission;
24 (c) one member of the Legislature appointed by the president of the Senate and the speaker
25 of the House of Representatives;
26 (d) up to five members with water policy experience, to be appointed by the Governor,
27 with the concurrence of the cochairs of the State Water Development Commission;

28 (e) a representative of the governor's office;
29 (f) the executive director of the Department of Natural Resources; and
30 (g) the executive director of the Department of Environmental Quality.
31 (3) No more than two of the legislative members of the task force may be from the same
32 political party.
33 (4) The cochairs of the State Water Development Commission shall act as cochairs of this
34 task force.
35 (5) In conducting its business, the task force shall comply with the rules of legislative
36 interim committees.
37 (6) The legislative and executive branch members of this task force shall constitute the
38 voting members of the task force.
39 (7) A majority of the voting members specified in Subsection (6) constitutes a quorum for
40 the transaction of the official business of the task force.
41 (8) (a) Legislators on the task force shall receive compensation and expenses in accordance
42 with Section 36-2-2 and Legislative Joint Rule 15.03
43 (b) Task force members who are employees of the state shall receive no additional
44 compensation or expenses.
45 (c) Other task force members shall receive no compensation or expenses from the state for
46 service on the task force.
47 (9) The task force may meet up to six times.
48 (10) The Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel shall provide staff support
49 to the task force.
50 (11) The task force shall review and make recommendations relating to alternative revenue
51 sources for water funding to the State Water Development Commission, as requested by the State
52 Water Development Commission cochairs, and to the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and
53 Environment Interim Committee by November 30, 2003.
54 Section 2. Appropriation.
55 There is appropriated from the General fund for fiscal year 2002-03, an appropriation of:
56 (1) $1,350 to the Senate to pay for the compensation and expenses of senators on the task
57 force;
58 (2) $1,350 to the House of Representatives to pay for the compensation and expenses of

59 representatives on the task force; and
60 (3) $15,000 to the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel to pay for staffing
61 the task force.
62 Section 3. Effective date.
63 If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect
64 upon approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah
65 Constitution Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto, the
66 date of veto override.
67 Section 4. Repeal date.
68 This act is repealed November 30, 2003.




Legislative Review Note
as of 7-9-02 4:49 PM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel