Utah Taxonomy

Legislative Management Committee

Legislative Management Committee
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.
Created by SB 218 (1975) Legislative Organization Act by Senator Karl N. Snow, Jr. effective March 25, 1975 (Laws of Utah, 1975, http://go.usa.gov/cfvxG). Snow had started his career in the 1960s as a Legislative Analyst. The bill created two permanent committees, a House Management Committee and a Senate Management Committee. The House Management Committee shall consists of 8 members of the House, four from each major political party included the elected leadership of the House and additional members chosen at the beginning of each general session by the minority caucus as needed to complete the full membership. The chairman of shall be the Speaker of the House or his designee. The Senate Management Committee shall consist of eight members of the Senate, four from each major political party. Membership shall include the elected leadership of the Senate and additional members chosen at the beginning of each general session by the appropriate party caucus as needed to complete the full membership. The chairman of the committee shall be the President of the Senate or his designee. The bill also established a Legislative Management Committee consisting of the membership of the House Management Committee and the Senate Management Committee. The President of the Senate or his designee shall be Chairman, the Speaker of the House or his designee shall be vice-chairman with those positions of chairman and vice-chairman rotating biennially between these two officers in succeeding legislative terms.

The bill also created four subcommitees having equal representation from each major political party from each major political party from each house of the legislature. These are the Research Subcommittee, the Budget Subcommitee, the Legal Services Subcommittee, and the Audit Subcommittee.(Laws of Utah 1975, ch. 109, http://go.usa.gov/cfvxG). The bill passed 20-8-1 in the Senate (Senate Journal 1975, day 57, p. 1138, http://go.usa.gov/cfv4d). At the time of creation, Democrats were the majority party in both the House and Senate and the Governor was Democrat Calvin Rampton.

Proposed bill H.B. 220s1 (2016) Legislative Organization Amendments by Rep. LaVar Christensen, as amended, would modify the composition of the Committee to create a partisan imbalance by amending 36-12-6 so that the Legislative Management Committee consists of the House Management Committee and the chair of the House Rules Committee and the Senate Management Committee and the chair of the Senate Rules Committee. The amendment added by Sen. Curtis Bramble provides if any vote of the committee results in a tie, the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives may together cast an additional vote to break the tie. (Bill file http://go.usa.gov/cfv2A).

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