Utah touts its part-time Legislature for its efficiency, and 45 days is one of the shortest sessions in the country. But that hasn’t stopped legislators from loading up their staff attorneys with bill requests, many of which won’t ever even be introduced as bills.
One senator evidently has made 80 bill requests, about a quarter of the total requests made by the Senate. Who is that senator? We can’t tell you because the Legislature prohibits the release of that information.
Nonsense. They just don’t want the public — their constituents — to know what they’re doing while they’re doing it.