H.J.R. 10

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JOINT RULES RESOLUTION - AMENDMENTS
2 IN CONTEXT
3 2005 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Rebecca D. Lockhart
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7 LONG TITLE
8 General Description:
9 This joint resolution amends provisions regarding the appearance of adopted
10 amendments in the Senate and House of Representatives.
11 Highlighted Provisions:
12 This resolution:
13 . amends provisions allowing a change in the type of markers indicating the
14 beginning and ending of adopted Senate and House amendments.
15 Special Clauses:
16 This joint resolution provides an immediate effective date.
17 Legislative Rules Affected:
18 AMENDS:
19 JR-4.17
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21 Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
22 Section 1. JR-4.17 is amended to read:
23 JR-4.17. Identifying Adopted Amendments in Context.
24 (1) When an amendment is [made] adopted in the Senate, [it is] the Senate amendment
25 shall be noted in the bill with additional spacing and [an "s" both before and after] markers
26 indicating the beginning and ending of the adopted Senate amendment.
27 (2) When an amendment is [made] adopted in the House, [it is] the House amendment

28 shall be noted in the bill with additional spacing and [an "h" both before and after] markers
29 indicating the beginning and ending of the adopted House amendment.
30 (3) When another section from the Utah Code is added through the amendment
31 process, only new language that is different from the code section cited is underlined.
32 Section 2. Effective date.
33 This resolution takes effect upon approval by a constitutional majority vote of all
34 members of the Senate and House of Representatives.





Legislative Review Note
as of 1-14-05 12:36 PM

Based on a limited legal review, this legislation has not been determined to have a high
probability of being held unconstitutional.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

Legislative Committee Note
as of 01-14-05 2:48 PM

The Joint House and Senate Rules Committee recommended this bill.