Sunday, March 20, 2011

Utah County Lawmakers pass 84 bills in 2011 Legislative session

The 2011 Legislative Session had a record number of bills proposed and according to the Daily Herald Utah County lawmakers proposed 151 bills and passed 84, or 56% of their proposed bills.  Daily Herald

Utah legislature also spent 13 hours and 34 minutes debating message bills to the federal government.  Representative Dave Clark and Brad Daw's bills calling for constitutional conventions were among the bills spending tax dollars to "send a message to Washington DC."   City Weekly

According to City Weekly Senator Curtis Bramble, R-Provo was the most successful Republican in the 2011 legislative session, passing 21 bills and two resolutions out of 37 proposed pieces of legislation or a 56.76%. 

The most successful Democrat was Senator Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, who passed 11 bills out of 19 he proposed with a 57.89%.

In   both the 2010 and 2011 Legislative sessions 9 out of every 10 bills passed were introduced by the Republicans. Deseret News

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