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| First session in legislature: | 2019 |
| Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2020 |
| Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2020: | 2 |
| Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2020: | 0 |
I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Stephanie Pitcher'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.| 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 | |
| District | H40 | H40 | |
| Party | D | D | |
| Leadership | None | None | |
| Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | |||
| Introduced by Pitcher | 7 | 5 | |
| Chamber average | 7.3 | 7.3 | |
| Difference | -0.3 | -2.3 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Pitcher's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | |||
| Bills introduced | 7 | 5 | |
| Bills passed | 4 | 4 | |
| Passage rate | 57.1% | 80.0% | |
| Chamber average | 63.5% | 57.6% | |
| Difference | -6.4 | +22.4 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| 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 | 1 | |
| Chamber average | 3.4 | 3.1 | |
| Difference | -3.4 | -2.1 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| 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 | 118 | 126 | |
| Total votes held | 752 | 698 | |
| Absentee rate | 15.7% | 18.1% | |
| Chamber average | 6.4% | 7.1% | |
| Difference | +9.3 | +11.0 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| "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 | 63 | 35 | |
| Total votes held | 752 | 698 | |
| "Nay" rate | 8.4% | 5.0% | |
| Chamber average | 6.5% | 7.0% | |
| Difference | +1.9 | -2.0 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| 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 | 46.6% | 66.7% | |
| Chamber average | 68.3% | 67.0% | |
| Difference | -21.7 | -0.3 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| 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 | -91.8 | -70.2 | |
| Chamber average | 16.1 | 17.4 | |
| Difference | -107.9 | -87.6 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| Party support score (overall) (learn more). How consistently does Rep. Pitcher 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) | 97.6% | 98.9% | |
| Chamber average | 95.4% | 94.8% | |
| Difference | +2.2 | +4.1 | |
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| 2019 | 2020 | ||
| 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) | 92.3% | 90.9% | |
| Chamber average | 84.6% | 83.5% | |
| Difference | +7.7 | +7.4 | |
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Only 8 bills sponsored by Rep. Pitcher have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Pitcher 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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| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0206S03 | 54 | 15 | 56.5% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0264S03 | 27 | 2 | 86.2% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0206S03 | 25 | 1 | 92.3% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0264S03 | 69 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0238S01 | 26 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0238S01 | 26 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0238S01 | 69 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0142S01 | 23 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2020 | Pitcher | HB0142S01 | 72 | 0 | 100.0% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2019 | Pitcher | HB0414S01 | 23 | 0 | 100.0% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
