Senate sends HCR 42 to Commerce & Human Resources Committee

HCR 42 arrived in the Senate, and the Senate went at ease and milled around for a long period of time. Senators were in various huddles, and it wasn’t clear what was happening. Then, just now, the Senate reconvened, and the Senate read HCR 42 across the desk, the formal first step when a bill arrives from the House. Then, Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes, R-Soda Springs, announced, “HCR No. 42 will be referred to the Commerce & Human Resources Committee.”

In the House, the bill came through the State Affairs Committee, rather than Commerce & Human Resources, the committee that normally deals with state employee issues - and that might be considered more sympathetic to state employees. That’s even more true in the Senate.