A bill to give three-member county commissions wider exemptions to the Utah Open and Public Meetings Act was blocked Friday after opposition from Utah news media.
The House Political Divisions Committee voted to move ahead with its agenda rather than to vote directly on HB185 after debate. That blocked the measure, and sponsoring Rep. Brian Greene, R-Pleasant Grove, said he is not interested in pushing it further.
Greene introduced the bill at the request of some commissions to allow debate on problems they face, he said, and he had accomplished that. Counties with such commissions include the large Utah, Davis and Weber counties.