S.R. 2 Senate Rules Resolution - Standing Committee Duties: transcript

and repealed a, a shall version with regards to a new occupation regulation and an ler. What we're suggesting in this Senate rules regulat resolution is that, uh, when a standing committee has, it doesn't matter which standing committee, when a standing committee has, uh, a new, uh, regulation on an, on an industry come forward, on an occupation come forward, that they, they will shall look to see if LER made any kind of a recommendation beyond that. It'd be up to the chair of the committee and the Committee whether they do anything with that recommendation, but just basically putting some onus on the committee to make sure that they do review back to see if there was a recommendation and then determine going forward if they need to do anything with that recommendation.

Thank you. Mr. Uh, Mr. President. Will the, uh, sponsor yield

I just would, um, like some clarification on here. So we passed the bill that, um, made it so that it's not mandatory for LER to, uh, look at sunrises, but this one says that the standing committee should ask if it went through an LER review. Is that correct?

Yes. If I could explain that. So yeah, it's, it, uh, is no longer a requirement that a legislature, a legislator, go through LER to determine if a bill they're running on a, a regulation of a new occupation. Uh, what this is saying is that there LER does have the authority to look at, uh, a new regulation and make recommendations, but they're not, they're not required to. This resolution simply says that if a, if a standing committee has a bill before them, that is a new, is a regulation of a new occupation, that they would look to see if LER had done any recommendation on it. And if so, then they could choose how to use that.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. So I just wanna clarify again, I'm not sure I, I fully understand the purpose of this. So, if a standing committee, um, uh, determines that the, uh, sponsor did not have a LER review on the, on the sunrise, is that an indication that the standing committee should, um, not pass the bill forward?

Actually, no. And, uh, and it's like I say, the legislator doesn't have to go to LER and, and it could be someone else, but if, if a bill came forward with a, a legislator sponsoring a regulation of a new occupation, it simply says that the standing committee would look to see if LER had done, um, any kind of review on that recommendation, whether from the legislator, whether requested by the legislator or another entity. And if then going forward as they discuss the bill, they can use the, the chair and, and the committee can use, determine whether they, however they use that information that could lead to, uh, them denying it could lead to them passing. But there's actually no implication how that, how that information would become or any predicated outcome.

Okay. Thank you. I think I understand now. Thank

and decide which motion you make. Okay. Um, if there's, if they're feel, if you feel like there's further discussion to have, I can move it to third, but

I think I'd feel more comfortable. I'll make a, a motion Mr. President that senate re resolution two be read a third time.

Senator Vickers Baldy Lewin Bramer bus comore escamilla Fillmore Aye. Grover Harper Aye. Hankins Aye. Ipson Aye. Johnson Aye. Quan McKay? Aye. Mikel Aye. Milner Musselman Aye. Owens Aye. Cher plum Rebe Aye. Sandal Aye. Stevenson Aye. Stratton Aye. Vickers Aye. Weiler Aye. Wilson a Winterton Aye. President Adams Aye.

Thank you Mr. President. The genesis of this piece of legislation, uh,

this is, uh, came out of committee, interim committee, uh, business and Labor. It, and it's, um, I'll be frank. So we had a, we had a bill, I think it was Senate Bill 33 that, uh, repealed the shall component of a legislator having to go to LER on, on a new licensure situation in thinking of how we could still try to have, um, requirements to at least get LER involved in certain things. You know, this was more of, I guess you could call it a compromised position, but at least a different approach to it, saying that if a committee had a bill come to them that was, uh, doing a new regulation on a licensure, then they would simply look to see if Opular had done any kind of a recommendation on it, and then they could use that or choose not to use or whatever. And not, not saying it's mandatory to, to utilize to, uh, determine for or against that particular, that particular bill. So it really was just an, it's an effort to try to have, uh, in rule that a committee would move forward and as they move forward on those types of bills, just to look at any information that that LER has, uh, given to them. So with that in mind, you know, I'm open to any questions or comments.

The only concern that I have is this isn't binding on, on anyone. And that may make you think, well, we don't need it, but, or we don't, you know, we can vote for it and it doesn't do anything. But I don't love the idea of law that puts in nothing that is required or, uh, you know, it's just something that could be done by a committee chair who wants to do it that way no matter what. And all we're doing is putting into code something that a committee chair can already do or could already not do. We're just adding to the code. And I'm not sure I understand the purpose of that. It's not what law does. Law should have the impact and effect and a requirement or something along those lines. And this is more of like a committee best management practices that I'm, I'm not comfortable putting that into the code on it, and so I'll probably be a no as is, but that, that would be the reason.

Thank you Mr. President. Will a sponsor yield Senator Vickers will yield?

Yes, go ahead, Senator Sandall.

So with that last comment, I guess I want to be clear in my mind this, this is not a statutory decision. This is a rule that we bind ourselves by. Is that correct?

That is correct. Yeah. As we propose that in rule, simply that it'd be as a kind of, and, and Senator Bramer said it, you know, as good practice, good committee practice, you know, to utilize all, um, resources available to us, LER has become a very valuable resource. And so this simply would state that, you know, as through our normal committee process, we would, uh, utilize information coming from them. No, no mandate on how you would use that information or ex to, to determine an outcome or no predicted outcome or anything like that. Thank you, Mr. President.

Yeah, I'll wa waive summation and move the Senate resolution to pass.

Ipson Baldry Aye. Lein Brammer bus Colmore Aye. Escamia Aye. Fillmore Aye. Grover Aye. Harper a Kinins Aye. Ipson Aye. Johnson k Juab McKay Mikel Milner Musselman Owens pitcher Plum Rebe Sandal Stevenson Stratton Aye. Vickers Aye. Weiler Aye. Wilson. Aye. Winterton a Luin Aye. President Adams Aye.