Utah Code 36-12-6. Permanent committees — House and Senate management — Members — Chair — Legislative Management Committee — Membership — Chair and vice-chair — Meetings — Quorum
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(1) There are hereby established as permanent committees of the Legislature a House Management Committee and a Senate Management Committee. The House Management Committee shall consist of eight members of the House of Representatives, four from each major political party. The membership shall include the elected leadership of the House of Representatives and additional members chosen at the beginning of each annual general session by the minority party caucus as needed to complete the full membership. The chair of the committee shall be the speaker of the House of Representatives or the speaker’s designee. The Senate Management Committee shall consist of eight members of the Senate, four from each major political party. The membership shall include the elected leadership of the Senate and additional members chosen at the beginning of each annual general session by the appropriate party caucus as needed to complete the full membership. The chair of the committee shall be the president of the Senate or the president’s designee.
Terms Used In Utah Code 36-12-6
- Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
- Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Major political party: means either of the two political parties having the greatest number of members elected to the two chambers of the Legislature. See Utah Code 36-12-1
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
(2)
(2)(a) There is established a permanent committee of the Legislature known as the Legislative Management Committee.
(2)(b) The committee shall consist of:
(2)(b)(i) the members of the House Management Committee; and
(2)(b)(ii) the members of the Senate Management Committee.
(2)(c)
(2)(c)(i) The president of the Senate or the president’s designee shall be chair during 1987, and the speaker of the House of Representatives or the speaker’s designee shall be vice-chair of the committee during that year.
(2)(c)(ii) The positions of chair and vice-chair of the Legislative Management Committee shall rotate annually between these two officers in succeeding years.
(2)(d) The committee shall meet as often as is necessary to perform its duties, but not less than once each quarter.
(2)(e) If any vote of the committee results in a tie, the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives may together cast an additional vote to break the tie.
(3) If a legislator declines membership on the committees established by this section, or if a vacancy occurs, a replacement shall be chosen by the leadership of the appropriate party of the chamber in which the vacancy occurs.
(4) The committees established by this section shall meet not later than 60 days after the adjournment sine die of the annual general session held in even-numbered years and not later than 30 days after the adjournment sine die of the annual general session held in odd-numbered years for the purpose of effecting their organization and prescribing rules and policies pertaining to their respective powers and duties. A majority of the members of each committee constitutes a quorum, and a majority of a quorum has authority to act in any matter falling within the jurisdiction of the committee.