Legislative Management votes to have counsel seek outside lawyers for petition review

Legislative Management voted to direct legislative counsel to seek outside legal counsel to review a petition that was placed on the legislative assembly last week. Senator Bechdel moved the measure and Senator Houck seconded it.

"I would move that legislative management have legislative counsel seek outside counsel for the petition that was put onto the legislative assembly last week," Senator Bechdel said when making the motion.

The committee conducted a roll-call vote. The roll call, as recorded in the transcript, shows affirmative votes from members listed as Hogue; Beckettall; Davidson; Hogan; Klein; Meerdal; Sorvag; Representative Zafar; Bosch; Freilich; Hager; Halk; Warrie; and Weiss. A single recorded dissent came from the member transcribed as "Istuh." The chairman declared the motion carried.

The committee then approved the minutes from its June 26 meeting after a motion to accept the minutes as presented; that motion was seconded and carried without further discussion. Members subsequently moved to adjourn; the motion was seconded and the committee adjourned.

The transcript does not provide additional details about the petition’s subject matter, the scope of the outside counsel engagement, or any timeline for selecting counsel. Those details were not specified in the meeting record.