HB 219 waiting for Governor to sign Browning automatic pistol state firearm

Photos:  M1911 Automatic pistol above, John M. Browning below.

House sponsor Carl Wimmer and senate sponsor Mark Madsen's HB 219 designating the John M. Browning designed M1911 automatic pistol as the state firearm passed the House with the senate amendment 47-24 with 4 absent on February 15. 

The House legislators that voted against this bill are:

Arent             Cosgrove          Fisher, Julie     Poulson           
      Biskupski         Cox               Hemingway         Richardson        
      Briscoe           Dougall           King              Seelig            
      Brown, D          Edwards           Litvack           Watkins           
      Butterfield       Eliason           Moss              Wheatley          
      Chavez-Houck      Fisher, Janice    Nielson           Wiley     

The Senators who voted against this bill are:

  NAYS 7
       
       Davis           Mayne           Morgan          Romero          
       Jones           McAdams         Robles          

I find the following Utah law most interesting both in size of Utah's official designation as well as the scope, including a cooking pot, folk dance, fossil, gem, grass, two vegetables, and now a firearm.  Do other states have similar laws or is Utah the leader in state's trying to pass more laws each year than the previous year?

This bill amends Utah Code 63G-1-601 as follows:  Note line 38

      Section 1. Section 63G-1-601 is amended to read:
             25           63G-1-601. State symbols.
             26          (1) Utah's state animal is the elk.
             27          (2) Utah's state bird is the sea gull.
             28          (3) Utah's state centennial astronomical symbol is the Beehive Cluster located in the
             29      constellation of Cancer the Crab.

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             30          (4) Utah's state centennial star is Dubhe, one of the seven bright stars composing the
             31      Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
             32          (5) Utah's state centennial tartan, which honors the first Scots known to have been in
             33      Utah and those Utahns of Scottish heritage, shall have a pattern or repeating-half-sett of
             34      white-2, blue-6, red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4 to represent the tartan worn
             35      anciently by the Logan and Skene clans, with the addition of a white stripe.
             36          (6) Utah's state cooking pot is the dutch oven.
             37          (7) Utah's state emblem is the beehive.
             38          (8) Utah's state firearm is the John M. Browning designed M1911 automatic pistol.
             39          [(8)] (9) Utah's state fish is the Bonneville cutthroat trout.
             40          [(9)] (10) Utah's state flower is the sego lily.
             41          [(10)] (11) Utah's state folk dance is the square dance, the folk dance that is called,
             42      cued, or prompted to the dancers and includes squares, rounds, clogging, contra, line, and
             43      heritage dances.
             44          [(11)] (12) Utah's state fossil is the Allosaurus.
             45          [(12)] (13) Utah's state fruit is the cherry.
             46          [(13)] (14) Utah's state vegetable is the Spanish sweet onion.
             47          [(14)] (15) Utah's historic state vegetable is the sugar beet.
             48          [(15)] (16) Utah's state gem is topaz, as is prominently found in the Thomas Mountain
             49      Range in Juab County, Utah.
             50          [(16)] (17) Utah's state grass is Indian rice grass.
             51          [(17)] (18) Utah's state hymn is "Utah We Love Thee" by Evan Stephens.
             52          [(18)] (19) Utah's state insect is the honeybee.
             53          [(19)] (20) Utah's state mineral is copper.
             54          [(20)] (21) Utah's state motto is "Industry."
             55          [(21)] (22) Utah's state railroad museum is Ogden Union Station.
             56          [(22)] (23) Utah's state rock is coal.
             57          [(23)] (24) Utah's state song is "Utah This is the Place" by Sam and Gary Francis.

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             58          [(24)] (25) Utah's state tree is the blue spruce.

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