Margaret Dayton and Brad Daw voted for HB 477

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Less than 48 hours AFTER the first public hearing on Dougal's Government Records amendment making sweeping changes to the Open Records Laws in Utah, the senate voted 21 to 7 with one absent to PASS the bill.

Daw joined the 61 House votes and Dayton was part of the 21 Senate votes.  Even if Governor Herbert vetoes this bill, the legislature has the majority to over ride any vetoes, unless some legislators change their vote.

the Yes votes in the senate were  senate votes

 Adams           Hinkins         Okerlund        Valentine       
       Bramble         Jenkins         Reid            Van Tassell     
       Christensen     Knudson         Stephenson, H.  Waddoups        
       Davis           Liljenquist     Stevenson, J.   
       Dayton          Madsen          Thatcher        
       Hillyard        Niederhauser    Urquhart 

Salt Lake Tribune Experts say Utah's record laws would be no better than a

third world country and would allow corruption.  While still others believe 

Utah's current laws allow for corruption.  The 13 million dollar UDOT payout would

never have been made public if not for GRAMA requests, and the question of how UDOT

had an extra 13 million dollars they could pay out and no one missed still looms with no 

answers.

HB 477 changes 1,814 lines of existing Utah Code, and no one had any idea it was being

changed until 48 hours before it was a done deal.  Opinion Salt Lake Tribune 

throwing GRAMA from the train