2025 bills / H.B. 557
H.B. 557 Debate Committee Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates the Utah Debate Committee, made up of an executive board and an advisory board. It also defines key terms, sets out who serves on the committee, and assigns duties and powers to the committee and each of its two boards.
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Official description
- defines terms
- creates the Utah Debate Committee
- creates an executive board and advisory board that make up the committee
- describes the membership of the committee
- establishes certain duties and powers for the:
- committee
- executive board
- advisory board
Your legislators on this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 557 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 557 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, 4 no, 5 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 6 no, 5 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: House vote, which failed · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 28, 2025 House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee▶ Watch