Guide to the Utah Legislature

Statistics on individual representatives and senators

• Detailed legislator profiles: Comprehensive statistical profile of individual legislators.

Statistics on general legislative trends

• Legislator flashcards: Learn each legislator's name, face, and leadership positions.
• Bill workload statistics: How many bills get introduced, voted on, and passed in each legislative session?
• Closest floor votes: Which bills provoke the closest votes?
• Floor debates: How much time does each chamber spend considering bills on the floor?
• Floor voting patterns: Frequency of party-line votes, average size of voting majority, etc.
• Legal impact: How much law gets changed per bill. Comparisons by sponsor party, sex, chamber, etc.
• Legislative experience: How much lawmaking experience does the typical legislator have? Who has served the longest?
• Party batting averages: How successful is each party at passing its bills?
• Senate second reading calendar: Does it matter that Senate rules require voting twice on everything?

Tools for generating custom reports about selected bills or legislators

• Generate custom scorecards: Provide a list of bills to score legislators' voting records.
• Missed vote reports: List every vote a legislator missed.
• Nay reports: List every time a legislator voted "nay."
• Who votes together? List a legislator's allies and opponents.
• See also the rankings, below.

Legislator rankings based on their voting records

• Absenteeism: Which legislators miss the most votes?
• Bill sponsorship: Which legislators sponsor the most bills?
• Nay votes: Which legislators vote "nay" most often?
• Party support scores: Which legislators vote most reliably with their co-partisans?
• Win rates: Which legislators vote with the winning side most often?