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Show der the bill as amended the state board of health would direct the cooperatives, membership of which would be restricted to legal residents resi-dents of the area affected. H. J. R. 1 calls for a constitutional constitu-tional amendment to provide for split legislative sessions. It aims to correct existing conditions caused by a jam of bills at the end of the present sixty-day session by providing pro-viding a recess during which legislators legis-lators may better familiarize themselves them-selves with proposed legislation. Approval of the bill to provide for a study of occupational diseases marks the end of current'session efforts ef-forts to have occupational diseases included in the workmen's compensation compen-sation act. Its sponsors expressed hope that the study will result in reports upon which action by the 1941 legislature may be based. The liquor mark-up bill provides for an increase in the price of liquors by a 50 to 60 per cent mark-up and in wines of from 40 to 50 per cent. A senate-passed measure provides for treatment of ailing miners at the state tuberculosis hospital to be erected at Ogden. Another will enable the state to participate in federal aid to education if proposed pro-posed national legislation is enacted enact-ed by congress. Unemployment compensation com-pensation is clarified and simplified by another approved bill. o By Uarda McCarty 15 Fixing by both legislative branches ' $400,000 as the state's biennial mtribution to the teachers' retire- ent fund. Passage by the lower house of lis providing for local option by iunties, cities and towns; educa-5nal educa-5nal study; women's eight-hour ly; marble machine regulation; peal of the average monthly in-ntory in-ntory law; setting up of medical operative and for amentment of e constitution to permit split jislative sessions. Approval by the senate of meases meas-es to appropriate $25,000 for a idy of occupational diseases; to ;rease the mark-up price of liq-.rs liq-.rs and wines; to put the state jhway patrol under civil service, d to place health departments of st and second class cities under 11 service. S Silling by the senate of a bill loosing to tax natural gas and by ; house of a measure to raise the ne occupation tax. 3ut of a melange of nearly 90 Is approved by either the upper lower house last week these are isidered outstanding in import- 5:e to the state at large. Only : the teachers' retirement meas-i meas-i won the approval of both .nches. Tp to Saturday night, with sine adjournment but four days away, legislators had acted upon ap-ximately ap-ximately 220 of the 640 bills in-' iuced. Forty-three have been sed by both houses and signed the governor. These include five Dlutlons and memorials. Twenty-i Twenty-i have been killed and 43 with-wn with-wn for one reason or another. ie have been tabled. n Monday there were 57 senate-sed senate-sed bills awaiting action by the ise and 74 house passed measures liting action by the senate. Ten s passed by both branches were liting approval or disapproval of rernor Henry H. Blood, who has fogs far vetoed but two measures. e disapproved because of a tech-$Jal tech-$Jal defect has been repassed, "he adopted teachers' retirement .d bill limits the state's contribu-i contribu-i to the fund to $400,000 each Dinium. The retirement system is Ling the state general fund more n $600,000 for the current bi-ilum. bi-ilum. The request for the en-ljhg en-ljhg biennium was more than ,000. Several measures to les-the les-the state's burden had been ielr;'oduced and the approved one 3 Regarded as a compromise. The 311 ate passed the bill Friday. Hie rement fund now contains more n $900,000. Payments to date ate been about $68,000. nerlie local option bill passed the tteler house by a vote of 37 to 21. Lneficr it counties, cities and towns u' decide whether they will have e liquor stores, provisions being 'ft one-fourth of a political en-. en-. , "s registered voters may petition 1 e nn election. If a majority de-' de-' against the sale of liquors, it ' Jf be unlawful to operate state' aiic'or stores or make sales in the '"he educational study bill pro-tg pro-tg is for the establishment of a ,mis.sion to investigate the state's ,...ous school systems with a view ,-cportiiig educational needs to Q( 1941 state legislature. The Osure calls for an appropriation 25,000. Commission members . . serve without pay. women's eight-hour bill as ' ted extends the 8-hour law to NSindustries, trades and occupa-( occupa-( J5 excepting canneries and con-nail5 con-nail5 packinff Perishable goods. Do-naL,ic Do-naL,ic servants are not included. e marble game regulation bill id . tcs a 5l!lte board of amusement rol to regulate the licensing and ' is of marble machines, pin es nd similar devices in which 3 ;elenient of skill predominates. ' .supporters favored a tax large !S ngh to put the machines out of ir ...less. ipeal of the average income law manv months of opposition Ltllhe part of business and indus-To indus-To what they held to be harm- I L i-burdens imposed by its provi-The provi-The repeal vote was 48 to JtSvealing large measures of sup---r from all legislative elements. O 1 ie health cooperatives measure IS a form of socialized medicine t . effect. If passed by the sen-(gl)and sen-(gl)and approved by the governor rg organization of medical cooper-a cooper-a js will be permitted by law. Un- |