Utah Code > Title 36 > Chapter 12 – Legislative Organization


§ 36-12-1	Definitions
§ 36-12-2	Standing committees
§ 36-12-3	Interim committees — Membership — Purpose — Meetings and rules
§ 36-12-4	Interim committees of two houses — Meeting jointly — Joint rules — Majority vote
§ 36-12-5	Duties of interim committees
§ 36-12-6	Permanent committees — House and Senate management — Members — Chair — Legislative Management Committee — Membership — Chair and vice-chair — Meetings — Quorum
§ 36-12-7	Legislative Management Committee — Duties — Litigation
§ 36-12-8	Legislative Management Committee — Research and General Counsel Subcommittee — Budget Subcommittee — Audit Subcommittee — Duties — Members — Meetings
§ 36-12-8.1	Legislative Management Committee — Subcommittee on Oversight — Members — Duties — Meetings
§ 36-12-8.2	Medical cannabis governance structure working group
§ 36-12-9	Legislative committees — Minutes of meetings — Official policies — Closed meetings — Private records
§ 36-12-9.5	Obstructing a legislative proceeding
§ 36-12-10	Right of members to attend meetings — Voting — Subject to open and public meeting requirements
§ 36-12-11	Interim committees’ powers
§ 36-12-12	Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel — Established — Powers, functions, and duties — Organization of office — Selection of director and general counsel
§ 36-12-12.1	Posting of required reports and policies — Compliance
§ 36-12-13	Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst established — Powers, functions, and duties — Qualifications
§ 36-12-15	Office of the Legislative Auditor General established — Qualifications — Powers, functions, and duties
§ 36-12-15.1	Budget and appropriation audits
§ 36-12-15.2	Elections audit
§ 36-12-16	Legislative directors — Authority to obtain assistance
§ 36-12-17	Duties of presiding officer and majority and minority leaders of each house and chairman of Legislative Management Committee
§ 36-12-18	Offices for Legislative Management Committee and professional legislative staff — Hours — Library facilities available — Documents, reports, and information available
§ 36-12-19	Investigatory powers of the Legislature
§ 36-12-21	Legislators serving in organizations without legislative sanction — Prohibited participation
§ 36-12-22	Reports from legislative boards — Annual reports — Preparation of legislation
§ 36-12-23	Legislative committees — Staffing

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 36 > Chapter 12 - Legislative Organization

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.
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
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.
Cemetery maintenance district: means a special district that operates under and is subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 1, Cemetery Maintenance District Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a cemetery maintenance district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Ditch: includes a drain or natural or constructed watercourse, whether open, covered, or tiled, and whether inside or outside the drainage district. See Utah Code 17B-2a-202
Drainage: includes the reclamation, protection, or betterment of land by leading, carrying, withholding, or pumping excess water from land through canals, ditches, pipes, or other means. See Utah Code 17B-2a-202
Drainage district: means a special district that operates under and is subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 2, Drainage District Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a drainage district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
Fire protection district: means a special district that operates under and is subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 3, Fire Protection District Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a fire protection district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Interim committees: includes a commission, committee, council, task force, board, or panel, in which legislative participation is required by law, which committee functions between sessions of the Legislature. See Utah Code 36-12-1
Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
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.
Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Major political party: means either of the two political parties having the greatest number of members elected to the two houses of the Legislature. See Utah Code 36-12-1
Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
Minority whip: See Whips.
Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Professional legislative staff: means the legislative directors and the members of their staffs. See Utah Code 36-12-1
Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Road: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

Special district: means a limited purpose local government entity, as described in Section 17B-1-103, that operates under, is subject to, and has the powers described in:

(a)	this chapter; or

(b)

(i)	this chapter; and

(ii)

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(F)

(G)

(H)

(I)

(J)

10; or

(K)

11. See Utah Code 17B-1-102

Standing committees: means legislative committees organized under the rules of each house of the Legislature for the duration of the legislative biennial term to consider proposed legislation. See Utah Code 36-12-1

State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.

Taxable value: means the taxable value of property as computed from the most recent equalized assessment roll for county purposes. See Utah Code 17B-1-102

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:Utah Code 68-3-12.5

Works: includes a dam, reservoir, well, canal, conduit, pipeline, drain, tunnel, power plant, and any facility, improvement, or property necessary or convenient for supplying or treating water for any beneficial use, and for otherwise accomplishing the purposes of a special district. See Utah Code 17B-1-102

Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5