Resolution allowing lawmakers to call special sessions advances

SALT LAKE CITY — Voters got closer Friday to being able to decide whether lawmakers should have the power to call themselves into a special session of the Legislature.Members of the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee unanimously advanced HJR18, a resolution seeking that power for lawmakers that also would require the support of Utahns in the November election.The resolution, which has already passed the House 73-1, now goes to the full Senate. Proposed consti