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Show House Action More Selective, Legislators Say Comparison of business accomplished accom-plished in the Utah State House of Representatives this year as against records of previous sessions ses-sions show a marked drop in the number of bills considered and either passed or rejected, a tally reveals. Old hands at the business of making Utah laws recognized early in the current 33rd Session that disposition of matters before the House was not so rapid as in previous years, but it is not, says House Majority Leader Ernest Er-nest Dean (D-Utah) a matter for concern. Rather, the American Fork legislator says, "This is really encouraging. Compare the figures fig-ures from last session "to this one. As of the end of the 22nd day of activity, last year we had introduced 170 bills. This year by the same date the tally was 119. This means that we are weeding out, through committee work, the useless pieces of legislation legis-lation that constantly spring up. We are avoiding duplications. And we are able to give much more mature consideration to those matters which are of importance im-portance to the taxpayers and voters. "The trend during the years with the growth of our state has been to increase the number of I bills presented before the legislative legis-lative bodies. Records show that the past thirty years has seen an increase of from 91 bills enacted in 1927 to 212 in 1957, while matters introduced from 364 to 564 for the same period. "It is my opinion that if we can enact legislation and give wiser consideration to matters before us, we are doing a better job than if we simply set out to run as many bills through a stamp machine as is possible," Rep. Dean said. |