2025 bills / H.B. 513
H.B. 513 Utah Commission for Earthquake Preparedness (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a Utah Commission for Earthquake Preparedness, with set membership, quorum rules, vacancy handling, and pay for members. The Department of Natural Resources would provide staff, and the commission would end on January 1, 2031.
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Official description
- creates the Utah Commission for Earthquake Preparedness, addressing:
- membership
- quorum requirements
- vacancies
- compensation for commission members
- permits the commission to invite officials from certain state and executive agencies to participate in the commission's meetings as nonvoting members
- requires the Department of Natural Resources to staff the commission
- specifies duties and responsibilities of the commission
- establishes a January 1, 2031, sunset date for the commission
- subject to an exception, provides that money appropriated to the commission by the Legislature is nonlapsing
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 513 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 513 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 7 yes, 3 no, 3 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 2 no, 1 absentFinal House vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 1 yes, 4 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how