Maryann Christensen presented this on YouTube.. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker. This is a submission to caucus corner.
Website: https://le.utah.gov use the search bar a lot. Can look up bills.
Calendar:
- Calendars show who, what event is when. Check frequent. Events change
Headers:
- Senate: roster / maps/ seating chart / leadership.
- House: (same as senate:
- Search: Search by sponsor. Search by bill number, phrase, topic, title of bill, or sponsor
- Demographics profiles of legislative districts.
- District maps.
- Legislators’ menu shows seating chart. Shows Legislators seating and what bills are under his n
- Not all bills will pass.
- Bills: will allow you to see different sessions even in past years.
- All democrats sit in the back right side of the room.
- Rosters can be searched by alphabetic or district.
- Bring up a legislators’ name and it will list the bills under their name.
- View by week and will show the meetings. The approbations meetings are listed at the top.
- When the state legislators are in sessions the box turns green there may video and audio live.
- May turn blue when meeting is over.
- Significant dates tell you the deadlines.
- Each day of the week’s show what meetings are occurring
Bill contents:
- Title: long title and short title. Will indicate if any money need to be paid.
- Text in the bill: is what it says
- Each bill can only have one single subject.
- Highlight provisions: give a brief idea of what or who the bill is supposed to help such as abortion, etc. It is the meat of the resolution.
- Severability clause > If a bill is controversial the severability clause makes it more palatable.
- Underline will be added.
- A line through will be deleted.
- Unaffected content of the bill is content prior to any changes. It does not have any modification on the text.
- Senate and House have separate rules.
- Blue text struck out that was in the original bill
- Red text is what is being put into the substitute bill.
- Amendments has a limited word length. Longer text need requires a new bill.
- Status > has to be voted unanimous in the committee before it can reach the floor.
- Substation is a completely new bill.
- Where As: Gives a list of why this bill is important. Items affected.
- Enacting or resolutions; underline texts means new content to be added to the bill.
- Affected laws section: shows how vote on this will influenced by new tills. All laws affect ae open to amendments.
- Links to other bills are in blue so you can jump over to where the bill referenced.
- Enacting or resolutions; underline texts means new content to be added to the bill.
- Interim bills are bills that are looked at and voted on, prior to this year’s legislation session begins. Bills that are voted on the first day of the session are usually Interim bills. Has to be a unanimous bill to go straight to the floor.
- Bill is show contents on the left and everything happening at the bill so far on right.
- Bills will be sent to the committee related to the area that the bill affects.
- Rules need to meet state statute.
Bill labels:
- HB### ‘HB’ means a bill that comes from the house.
- HR### is a resolution from the house. Is used to be pass in their rules. They are used to send a message. One example is when last year a senator got national press when he offered a resolution the pornography is bad for your health.
- HJR### is a bill is a matter for both the house and the senate. Is dependent upon the Governor’s signature.
- HCR### is a bill for the house, senate and the Governor. Does not pass unless all three parties agree.
