Bill And Data Management
CurrentThis job is also specific to the legislature. I input and modify draft bills and amendments, check for consistency in legislative style, create substitute bills, and produce cross-reference reports for each file. I check compared documents, which entails checking the sections in the statute database against how they are amended in the bill to make sure we haven't inadvertently deleted or added something without the proper coding. I prepare amendments that pull in statute sections, electronically freeze lines on numbered and substituted bills, and, as directed by the drafting attorney or analyst, provide frozen substitute bills and any amendments to standing committee analysts prior to standing committee meetings. In addition, as directed by the drafting attorney or analyst, I provide a frozen substitute bill and bill file when the bill will be substituted on the floor. All enrolling of bills, including incorporating all of the amendments into the final draft of the bill, which becomes the official enrolled copy of the bill, is my responsibility. I gather information for statute sections that were affected by more than one bill and need to be merged and technically renumber statutes sections that have multiple enactments and find and change any cross references affected by the technical renumber. I prepare the Technical Action Index, update the statute database and legislative rules database for publication, and run the process that puts the Utah Code onto the Legislature's Internet website once the Utah Code database is updated. I also print out sections and chapters of the code, liaison with Lexis Nexis and other publishing companies, proof read and edit the Laws of Utah before publication, and image bill files.