The Legislative Management Committee (LMC) consists of the combined membership of the Senate Management Committee and the House Management Committee. LMC's main responsibility is to manage the administrative affairs of the Legislature and to provide direction to legislative committees. For example, it creates interim committees and task forces, approves site visits for the Legislature, assigns the study items from the Master Study Resolution to the various interim committees, authorizes study requests from interim committees, assigns new study items to interim committees, and schedules interim committee meeting dates and times. Duties of the LMC are specified in
Utah Code 36-5-1. "It is the duty of the legislative management committee to employ, after recommendation of the appropriate subcommittee of the legislative management committee, without regard to political affiliation, and subject to approval of a majority vote of both houses, individuals qualified for the positions of legislative research director, legislative fiscal analyst, legislative general council and legislative auditor general.....and to employ without regard to political affiliation, a person qualified for the position of legislative services director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the committee."
The 16 committee members are: the Senate President, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Whip, Senate Assistant Majority Whip, Senate Majority Leader, House Majority Leader, House House Majority Whip, Assistant Majority Whip; and Senate Minority Leader, Senate Minority Whip, Senate Assistant Minority Whip, Senate Minority Caucus Manager, House Minority Leader, House Minority Whip, House Assistant Minority Whip, and House Minority Caucus Manager. The fourth minority representatives on the committee has been known as the Minority Caucus Manager (occasionally Minority Caucus Leader) since about 1996.