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| First session in legislature: | 2017 |
| Most recent year of service for which data are available: | 2022 |
| Total sessions served in Utah House as of 2022: | 6 |
| Total sessions served in Utah Senate as of 2022: | 0 |
I present a variety of statistics about Rep. Elizabeth Weight'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.| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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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 | H31 | H31 | H31 | H31 | H31 | H31 | |
| Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | |
| Leadership | None | None | None | None | None | None | |
| Years in chamber | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
| Bills sponsored (learn more) Bills written and promoted by the legislator in his/her own chamber. | |||||||
| Introduced by Weight | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Chamber average | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 6.6 | 7.1 | |
| Difference | -3.7 | -4.1 | -1.3 | -2.3 | -3.6 | -4.1 | |
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| Bill passage rate (learn more). What percent of Rep. Weight's sponsored bills pass and are officially "enrolled"? (I ignore whether the governor signed or vetoted the bill.) | |||||||
| Bills introduced | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Bills passed | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Passage rate | 0.0% | 33% | 17% | 20% | 33% | 33% | |
| Chamber average | 61% | 53% | 63% | 58% | 60% | 58% | |
| Difference | -61.4 | -20.4 | -46.5 | -37.6 | -26.8 | -25.2 | |
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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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chamber average | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.0 | |
| Difference | -3.6 | -3.4 | -3.4 | -3.1 | -3.1 | -3.0 | |
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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 | 8 | 37 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 15 | |
| Total votes held | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | 666 | 711 | |
| Absentee rate | 1.1% | 5.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2.1% | |
| Chamber average | 5.2% | 8.0% | 6.4% | 7.1% | 6.1% | 5.7% | |
| Difference | -4.1 | -3.0 | -5.3 | -6.0 | -4.9 | -3.6 | |
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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 | 96 | 74 | 65 | 58 | 71 | 57 | |
| Total votes held | 727 | 734 | 752 | 698 | 666 | 711 | |
| "Nay" rate | 13% | 10% | 8.6% | 8.3% | 11% | 8.0% | |
| Chamber average | 7.1% | 6.5% | 6.5% | 7.0% | 7.7% | 6.5% | |
| Difference | +5.9 | +3.5 | +2.1 | +1.3 | +3.3 | +1.5 | |
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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 | 53% | 55% | 50% | 62% | 40% | 59% | |
| Chamber average | 67% | 66% | 68% | 67% | 66% | 67% | |
| Difference | -13.4 | -11.2 | -18.8 | -5.5 | -26.2 | -7.9 | |
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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. Weight 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% | 98% | 99% | 98% | 99% | 98% | |
| Chamber average | 95% | 94% | 95% | 95% | 94% | 95% | |
| Difference | +1.8 | +4.2 | +3.1 | +3.0 | +5.0 | +3.1 | |
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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) | 89% | 94% | 94% | 95% | 98% | 94% | |
| Chamber average | 87% | 83% | 85% | 83% | 85% | 84% | |
| Difference | +2.3 | +11 | +9.3 | +12 | +13 | +10 | |
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Only 10 bills sponsored by Rep. Weight have come to a vote. Listed below are all votes held on bills that Rep. Weight 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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| 2020 | Weight | HB0152S01 | 41 | 29 | 17% | House/ substituted from # 0 to # 1 |
| 2021 | Weight | HCR003S02 | 27 | 45 | 25% | House/ failed |
| 2020 | Weight | HB0152S01 | 18 | 50 | 47% | House/ failed |
| 2022 | Weight | HCR019 | 73 | 0 | 100% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2022 | Weight | HCR018 | 68 | 0 | 100% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2022 | Weight | HB0122S01 | 26 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2022 | Weight | HB0122S01 | 20 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 2nd reading |
| 2022 | Weight | HB0122S01 | 69 | 0 | 100% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
| 2021 | Weight | HB0212 | 29 | 0 | 100% | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension |
| 2021 | Weight | HB0212 | 67 | 0 | 100% | House/ passed 3rd reading |
