Tag: Interim Session Watch

Interim Natural Resources Committee – May 2012

Science may or may not be real. That seemed to be the pervasive sentiment as Kathleen Clarke, Director of Governor Herbert’s Public Lands Policy office, spoke before the Interim Natural Resources Committee. Ms. Clarke’s testimony revolved around the expectation that the United States may soon list the Sage Grouse as an endangered species, and the

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Interim Law Enforcement Committee – May 2012

Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel (son of Kane County Representative, Mike Noel), got more than he planned for when he went before the Law Enforcement Committee. He had hoped to simply get permission to deploy and access power for a fixed-site license plate recognition camera on a stretch of I-15 between Beaver and St. George.

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Interim Public Utilities Committee – May 2012

Proving, once again, that timing is everything, the public and committee members were left feeling less-than-satisfied with the Health Department’s report on the recent IT security breach. The breach, as you’ll recall, effected as many as 780,000 people’s names, 280,000 of which included social security numbers, when hackers were able to break into the Health

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Interim Education Committee – May 2012

Superintendent Larry Shumway was not having a good day, as lawmakers on the Interim Education Committee questioned him, pointedly, over the Education Department’s $25 Million budgeting “miscalculation,” which may force a special session of the legislature later this year to make up the difference. One of the few legislators to take Shumway’s side was Representative

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Interim Transportation Committee Meeting – May 2012

The Transportation Committee meeting was far more interesting for what happened in the hallway rather than during the actual meeting. The meeting itself was a standard project update from UDOT et al, with no real compelling or controversial topics being discussed…

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