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Show By Uarda McCarty ization enactments including the many transfers of powers and duties from existing departments and commissions to the new agencies. With reorganization as a whole approved, the lower house lasl week devoted its attention to other oth-er pending measures. Representatives Represent-atives passed 17 house bills anc three senate bills. One senate joinl resolution was killed. The week'i activities raise the total of Dill! Setting up practically a newC system of state government by the current legislative session seems assured with the unanimous unanim-ous passage last week by the senate sen-ate of five measures embodying various phases of Govorner Herbert Her-bert B. Maw's comprehensive plan for governmental reorganization. Apparently relegating to the discard H. B. , 82, the all-inclusive reorganization bill passed by the lower house, in favor of approximately approx-imately 75 measures treating each phase of reorganization separately, sep-arately, the senate last week passed pas-sed five of them. They established a publicity and industrial development devel-opment department, set up a 3-member public welfare commission, com-mission, and transfer control of the Utah State Training School Utah State Hospital and Juvenile court system to the public welfare wel-fare department. All were passed without a dessenting vote. Legislators and legislative experts ex-perts predict that the remainder of the senate reorganization bills I will be acted upon and with house approval go to the governor for his action before the final session bell rings on March 13. That they will meet with but little opposition opposi-tion except as to minor de'. . s and with few attempts at important impor-tant amendments is deemed likely in view of the unanimous votes cast on those already passed. Then, probably in June. will come a special legislative session at which the lawmakers will pass upon the governor's appointments to the newly created department: and commissions, and make whal ever revisions are deemed nec-. nec-. essary to strengthen the reorgan passed by the house to ol including includ-ing 17 also passed by the senate. The senate lajst week passed 17 senate bills, one' senate joint memorial to Congress and five house bills. Up to Saturday night it had passed 47 senate bills and the o- e S. J. M. including six also al-so passed by the house. Measures passed by both branches totaled 23 bills, six senate joint resolutions, resolu-tions, one senate joint memorial, and five house joint resolutions. Governor Maw has approved 24 measures and vetoed one. All told 535 measures have been introduced introduc-ed during the session. Nine senate bills, three senate joint resolutions, resolu-tions, and eight house bills have been killed, and 10 withdrawn. Final action is yet to be taken on 215 senate bills, two joint resolutions, resol-utions, two senate concurrent re-I re-I solutions, 133 house bills, house ! joint resolutions, and one house I concurrent memorial. Bills receiving fir-' .-n i ! last week include H. B. o, prohib-i prohib-i iting tobacco vending machines j in places where they are access-s access-s ible to minors, and S. B. 82. mak-: mak-: ing trepass on private lands for - hunting, trapping or camping a -' misdemeaner. |