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| First session in legislature: | 2015 |
| Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2025 |
| Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2025: | 11 |
| Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2025: | 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 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | ||
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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 | House | House | House | House | House | |
| District | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H23 | H21 | H21 | H21 | |
| Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | |
| Leadership | None | None | CaucusMgr | CaucusMgr | None | None | None | None | AsstWhip | AsstWhip | None | |
| Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
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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 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Chamber average | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.0 | |
| Difference | -5.7 | -3.0 | -4.7 | -6.1 | -5.3 | -4.3 | -4.6 | -4.1 | -5.1 | -7.5 | -6.0 | |
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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 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Bills passed | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Passage rate | 100% | 50% | 50% | 100% | 100% | 67% | 50% | 67% | 33% | 100% | 0.0% | |
| Chamber average | 63% | 54% | 61% | 53% | 63% | 58% | 60% | 58% | 56% | 56% | 59% | |
| Difference | +37 | -3.5 | -11.4 | +47 | +37 | +9.4 | -9.8 | +8.8 | -23.3 | +44 | -58.7 | |
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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 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Chamber average | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.6 | |
| Difference | -3.8 | -3.3 | -2.6 | -2.4 | -3.4 | -2.1 | -1.1 | -2.0 | -1.5 | -2.3 | -4.6 | |
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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 | 15 | 21 | 23 | 32 | 50 | |
| Total votes held | 699 | 657 | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | 666 | 711 | 803 | 845 | 850 | |
| Absentee rate | 0.6% | 2.1% | 2.9% | 10% | 11% | 3.4% | 2.3% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 3.8% | 5.9% | |
| Chamber average | 6.3% | 6.4% | 5.2% | 8.0% | 6.4% | 7.1% | 6.1% | 5.7% | 6.4% | 6.8% | 7.1% | |
| Difference | -5.7 | -4.3 | -2.3 | +2.0 | +4.6 | -3.7 | -3.8 | -2.7 | -3.5 | -3.0 | -1.2 | |
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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 | 72 | 58 | 92 | 94 | 127 | |
| Total votes held | 699 | 657 | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | 666 | 711 | 803 | 845 | 850 | |
| "Nay" rate | 13% | 13% | 15% | 8.6% | 8.0% | 7.7% | 11% | 8.2% | 11% | 11% | 15% | |
| Chamber average | 8.6% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 7.0% | 7.7% | 6.5% | 7.1% | 5.7% | 6.2% | |
| Difference | +4.4 | +5.7 | +7.9 | +2.1 | +1.5 | +0.7 | +3.3 | +1.7 | +3.9 | +5.3 | +8.8 | |
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| Winning side rate (learn more). What percentage of the time (excluding near-unanimous votes) is the legislator on the winning side of a floor vote? | ||||||||||||
| Winning side rate | 55% | 54% | 50% | 56% | 48% | 60% | 39% | 57% | 44% | 44% | 56% | |
| Chamber average | 67% | 66% | 67% | 66% | 68% | 67% | 66% | 67% | 69% | 68% | 69% | |
| Difference | -12.7 | -12.0 | -17.3 | -10.3 | -20.3 | -6.6 | -27.5 | -10.0 | -25.6 | -23.5 | -12.7 | |
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| Ideology score (NOMINATE method) (learn more). Using W-NOMINATE algorithm developed by Congressional scholars, I calculate each legislator's relative ideology after each General Session. I describe the method here. Scores have no intrinsic meaning. They are only relative: A legislator with a higher score is to the right ideologically of a legislator with a lower scale. Scores may be compared only within a single chamber and a single year. In most years, a conservative Republican will have a score above 0; a score close to 100 is extreme. | ||||||||||||
| Contact me for scores. They get misinterpreted often enough that I now provide them only to political scientists. | ||||||||||||
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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% | 99% | 96% | 98% | 98% | 97% | 98% | 98% | 98% | 98% | 98% | |
| Chamber average | 94% | 95% | 95% | 94% | 95% | 95% | 94% | 95% | 96% | 96% | 96% | |
| Difference | +4.6 | +4.2 | +1.3 | +4.5 | +2.7 | +2.1 | +4.5 | +2.2 | +2.6 | +1.5 | +2.6 | |
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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) | 96% | 98% | 95% | 95% | 91% | 92% | 93% | 91% | 95% | 94% | 96% | |
| Chamber average | 82% | 85% | 87% | 83% | 85% | 83% | 85% | 84% | 88% | 87% | 88% | |
| Difference | +14 | +12 | +7.6 | +12 | +5.9 | +8.2 | +8.6 | +7.4 | +7.1 | +6.8 | +8.7 | |
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Only 16 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) |
Type of vote |
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| 2017 | Hollins | HB0156S01 | 40 | 32 | 11% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2022 | Hollins | HB0428S02 | 19 | 10 | 31% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2017 | Hollins | HB0156S01 | 47 | 23 | 34% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2018 | Hollins | HR0001S01 | 48 | 22 | 37% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2021 | Hollins | HB0345S02 | 20 | 6 | 54% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2021 | Hollins | HB0345S02 | 61 | 12 | 67% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2021 | Hollins | HB0345S02 | 62 | 10 | 72% | House/ concurs with Senate amendment |
| 2022 | Hollins | HB0428S02 | 65 | 9 | 76% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2023 | Hollins | HB0487S01 | 23 | 3 | 77% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2025 | Hollins | HB0370S01 | 63 | 5 | 85% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
