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| First session in legislature: | 2015 |
| Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2020 |
| Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2020: | 6 |
| Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2020: | 0 |
I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Sandra Hollins's service in the Utah legislature. I highlight differences from chamber averages using little green and red arrows. The number of arrows is statistically determined. More arrows indicate a larger difference compared to the chamber average, in relation to how much diversity there is among legislators on this metric. If all legislators introduce exactly 5 bills, then a legislator who introduces 10 is very different; if legislators vary wildly in how many bills they introduce (but the average is still 5), then a legislator who introduces 10 bills may be less different from average. The standard deviation measures this diversity.
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Three arrows mean that the legislator is significantly different from average (i.e. at least two standard deviations from the mean, placing the legislator in the top/bottom 2% or so)./ Two arrows mean that the legislator is somewhat different from average (i.e. at least one standard deviation from the mean, placing the legislator in the top/bottom 16% or so)./ One arrow indicates that the legislator is only slightly different from average (i.e. one-third standard deviation from the mean). A single arrow indicates a very small difference; don't make too much of it.| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
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| Service summary. Service prior to 2007 (if any) is not shown here. My database goes back only to 2007. | |||||||
| Chamber | House | House | House | House | House | House | |
| District | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | |
| Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | |
| Leadership | None | None | CaucusMgr | CaucusMgr | None | None | |
| Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
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| Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | |||||||
| Introduced by Hollins | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Chamber average | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | |
| Difference | -5.7 | -3.0 | -4.7 | -6.1 | -5.3 | -4.3 | |
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| Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Hollins's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | |||||||
| Bills introduced | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Bills passed | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Passage rate | 100.0% | 50.0% | 50.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 66.7% | |
| Chamber average | 63.0% | 53.5% | 61.4% | 53.4% | 63.5% | 57.6% | |
| Difference | +37.0 | -3.5 | -11.4 | +46.6 | +36.5 | +9.1 | |
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| Bills floor sponsored. A "floor sponsor" is like a secondary sponsor of a bill. After a bill passes the sponsor's chamber, its sponsor needs to find a "floor sponsor" in the other chamber to usher it through the other chamber. | |||||||
| Total floor sponsored | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Chamber average | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | |
| Difference | -3.8 | -3.3 | -2.6 | -2.4 | -3.4 | -2.1 | |
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| Missed votes (learn more). Usually missed votes occur because of competing obligations within the legislature, not because the legislator has left the capitol. | |||||||
| Missed votes | 4 | 14 | 21 | 76 | 81 | 24 | |
| Total votes held | 699 | 657 | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | |
| Absentee rate | 0.6% | 2.1% | 2.9% | 10.4% | 10.8% | 3.4% | |
| Chamber average | 6.3% | 6.4% | 5.2% | 8.0% | 6.4% | 7.1% | |
| Difference | -5.7 | -4.3 | -2.3 | +2.4 | +4.4 | -3.7 | |
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| "Nay" votes (learn more). Most floor votes pass by overwhelming majorities, since unpopular bills get weeded out long before they reach the floor. As a result, "nay" votes are rare. | |||||||
| "Nay" votes | 93 | 87 | 109 | 63 | 60 | 54 | |
| Total votes held | 699 | 657 | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | |
| "Nay" rate | 13.3% | 13.2% | 15.0% | 8.6% | 8.0% | 7.7% | |
| Chamber average | 8.6% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 7.0% | |
| Difference | +4.7 | +5.9 | +7.9 | +2.1 | +1.5 | +0.7 | |
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| Influence or "floor power" (learn more). What percentage of the time is the legislator on the winning side of a floor vote? | |||||||
| Floor power score | 54.6% | 54.2% | 49.5% | 56.0% | 48.0% | 60.4% | |
| Chamber average | 67.3% | 66.2% | 66.8% | 66.3% | 68.3% | 67.0% | |
| Difference | -12.7 | -12.0 | -17.3 | -10.3 | -20.3 | -6.6 | |
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| Ideology score 1 (from interest group ratings). Half a dozen interest groups release ratings of each legislator after each legislative session. I rescale them all from 0 (most liberal) to 100 (most conservative) and average them together, resulting in the numbers reported here. | |||||||
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| Ideology score 2 (NOMINATE method) (learn more). Using a widely accepted scaling method, I calculate each legislator's ideology score (called a "NOMINATE" score) after each legislative session. I describe the method here. Scores have no intrinsic meaning; they are useful only for comparing two legislators. A legislator with a higher score is more to the right ideologically of a legislator with a lower scale. In most years, a conservative Republican will have a score above 0; a score close to 100 is extreme. | |||||||
| NOMINATE score | -82.9 | -88.2 | -95.2 | -89.1 | -77.5 | -89.9 | |
| Chamber average | 19.0 | 25.2 | 20.7 | 9.8 | 16.1 | 17.4 | |
| Difference | -101.9 | -113.4 | -115.9 | -98.9 | -93.6 | -107.3 | |
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| Party support score (overall) (learn more). How consistently does Rep. Hollins support his/her party? That is, what percentage of the time does the legislator vote with the majority of the other members of his/her party? Scores are usually easily above 90%. | |||||||
| Score (overall) | 98.4% | 98.8% | 96.2% | 98.3% | 98.1% | 96.9% | |
| Chamber average | 93.8% | 94.6% | 94.9% | 93.8% | 95.4% | 94.8% | |
| Difference | +4.6 | +4.2 | +1.3 | +4.5 | +2.7 | +2.1 | |
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| Party support score (party-line only) (learn more). This is the same as the "raw" party support score, but we look only at party-line votes when calculating this. A "party-line" vote occurs when the majority of Democrats votes against the majority of Republicans. Although party-line votes are rare, looking at the legislator's party support score in this setting can be revealing. | |||||||
| Score (party-line only) | 95.6% | 97.7% | 94.7% | 95.1% | 90.5% | 91.7% | |
| Chamber average | 81.9% | 85.4% | 87.1% | 83.0% | 84.6% | 83.5% | |
| Difference | +13.7 | +12.3 | +7.6 | +12.1 | +5.9 | +8.2 | |
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Only 10 bills sponsored by Rep. Hollins have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Hollins sponsored. The votes are sorted by vote margin, with the most divisive votes listed first.
| Year | Sponsor | Bill | Ayes | Nays | Margin (as % of total votes) |
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| 2017 | Hollins | HB0156S01 | 40 | 32 | 11.1% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2017 | Hollins | HB0156S01 | 47 | 23 | 34.3% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2018 | Hollins | HR0001S01 | 48 | 22 | 37.1% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2015 | Hollins | HCR004 | 69 | 1 | 97.1% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Hollins | HCR010 | 25 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2020 | Hollins | HCR010 | 67 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Hollins | HB0318S01 | 26 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2020 | Hollins | HB0318S01 | 71 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2019 | Hollins | HJR008S01 | 69 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2019 | Hollins | HJR008S01 | 26 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
