H.B. 301 Drug Recodification: transcript

with 3 0 1, 3 0 1 drug reification. Let's, I mean, it felt right, right after Reification was slandered. Just now. I appreciate, I don't know if you noticed that I prior presentation. Yeah. I Appreciate him not blaming Recode. Yeah. Slight slander. So we do have a substitute that we will need to adopt. That is simply a coordinating clause. Okay, I see That. But despite Senator Musselman's efforts to kill the Reconation task force, our work continued. And here we are after six years with the final recon as Sunset, if you will, which might be a metaphor for my career down here anyway. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, man. Uh, So that's exactly what this is. This is a recon of drug, uh, statutes in the state of Utah. Um, they're located everywhere, controlled Substance Abuse Act. Uh, they're within the criminal code. So again, it simply takes, uh, our drug codes reorganizes into them, into something readable by our prosecutors, our defense attorneys, the general public, if you will. There is no policy changes in this recon, none whatsoever. Uh, everyone that has to read it will thank us when we're done. That concludes my presentation.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, motion to favorably recommend HB 3 0 1 drug reification.

Thank you. That's what I meant. I'll withdraw that to That's what I thought I heard the first substitute.

Um, waive. Thank you. Okay.

Uh, waive.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Motion to favor. We recommend HB 3 0 1 drug reification is substituted. That's an order. Would you like to speak to it?

I know, whatever this might be your last recall bill ever. It's weird to think, um, but, uh, it is one of the least fun assignments one could have and one of the more important ones as far as making sure that the code is even readable and findable and usable, which is the whole point.

Yeah. Whether appropriate or not. I'm a lame duck, so it doesn't matter. I'm gonna take liberty of saying this anyway, but while we have had fun right. Uh, talking about the ADEs, I can't tell you how grateful, appreciative, thankful I am for, uh, Jackie Rogers over the last six years. Yeah. This has been her life for the last six years. Yeah. And, uh, so I just want her to know that I appreciate everything that she's done.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Some of you know, or all of you know that this is my last session, Daniel, and I wanted to send my thanks to, uh, Senator Musselman. He made it his life's mission to abolish as many task forces as he could. One of those was the reification task force, and even though he killed it, he didn't kill our desire to continue and finish the reco. So, as my short tenure and career in the legislature ends in sunsets, so does the reification work. This is actually the last section of the recode we've been working on over the last several years. Um, this is the drug recode. It standardizes, um, the penalties, the definitions, uh, the, um, criteria just like the rest of the criminal code. There are no policy changes in this bill, although it's, you know, several thousand lines of statute, no policy changes. That's all this bill does. Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Oh, no, no.

It's my privilege and my honor to favorably recommend HB 3 0 1. First substitute. Yeah. First substitute.

And if I could speak to that. Okay. I just, I just, uh, this is a bit a, a bit of a work that the, the Good Representatives spent a lot of his time up here on the hill cleaning up a section of code that needed a lot of cleaning. And this is, this is a, this is tough work to drag through and I appreciate it. And he recognizes that I don't, I appreciate him. I may not have liked committees nor fire trucks for that matter, but that's an inside joke nobody else will get, but him and I. But, but, uh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, if it would, I suppose this might make sense on consent.

I would, I would move that we pay place HB 3 0 1 for substitute drug reification on the consent calendar.

Meeting clerk First substitute house bill 3 0 1 drug reification by Representative Gwynn. This bill was heard in law enforcement and criminal justice with a vote of 9 0 2 Representative Gwynn.

Thank you Mr. Speaker, bro, Tim. Colleagues, most of you know that over the last sev uh, six years, I have been working with LRGC on a complete reification of our criminal code. And the irony is not lost on me. That is my time down here sunsets that the criminal code recode will also Sunset. Although I would also remind the body that it's sunsetted prematurely when our former, uh, house member now Senator killed all or thought he killed all task forces, this work still remained to be done. I'm proud to report that if this gets out of the body today, it's closer to being done. This relates to the Controlled Substance Abuse Act, uh, very technical, uh, very complicated, uh, code. And just like all the other codes, what we did is we set the definitions in one place, the penalties in another place, and we've done that to make it easier for our law enforcement, for our attorneys, for our constituents to read. There are no policy changes in this bill. It is technical only. That's all this bill does. Mr. Speaker proto.

President. This, this bill is exactly what it says it is the drug reification. We do that every, every year or two and we, we go through and we do that. And that's what this bill does. And I'd urge support. So I would move that this bill pass.

Senator Vickers Baldry. Lein b Brammer Aye. Bus Comore Escamilla Fillmore Aye. Grover Aye. Harper Kins Aye. Ipson Aye. Johnson. Aye. Juab McKay Mikel Aye. Milner Musselman Owens pitcher Plum Rebe Sandal Stevenson Stratton Vickers Weiler Wilson Wind, Winterton Aye.

Thank you Mr. President.