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Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
There’s a cadence to the annual legislative session on Utah’s Capitol Hill. It starts slow and crescendos to frenetic by the end. Unlike the federal government and some states, the Utah Legislature does not meet all year. Instead, the lawmakers meet for 45 days and have a hard stop at midnight on the 45th day.
In that time, they will request somewhere around 1,200 bills, begin the process of hearing around 800 bills, will pass some 500 bills and, they’ll balance the budget.