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Show Utah State Legislature Steps Up Work As Bills Begin Pouring Into Hopper Referring to a conflict between those who, urge medical care for the aged as an adjunct to public welfare and those who want it attached to Social Security, the majority view at the conference supported the latter method, she said. In the Senate the first bill passed this session outlined provisions pro-visions of a Utah Highway Patrol retirement system. Among other important legislation legis-lation was a bill which would put marriage counseling on a volunteer fee-paying basis under a single administrative authority. author-ity. C. Don Holladay, coordinator of the State Marriage Counseling Service, said the bill also would provide that persons seeking a divorce must prove reasonable efforts have been made for a reconciliation. 9f(r test t .jrSy ' J REP. DELLA LOVERIDGE Reports Better Care for the Aged Utah State Legislature this week got down to hard work as hearings on bills began and new bills continued to pour into the hopper. In the House bills which would accomplish and increase in the state school program were introduced. in-troduced. Also in the House a series of measures affecting citizens of more than 65 years were introduced intro-duced and sent on the first lap of their legislative journey. One of the bills for relief of the aged would provide a state personal income tax exemption of $600 for persons over. Another An-other would create a Coordinating Coordinat-ing Council on Aging as a permanent per-manent state agency , to guide efforts in support of the aged. One bill would make employment employ-ment discrimination against the aged illegal, seeking to bar an employer from discharging or refuisng to hire a person because of age. Still another measure would set up permissive machinery for the state to provide medical care for the aged under a federal aid plan. In addressing the House, Rep. Delia Loveridge, Democrat of Salt Lake City, said the need for providing better care for the aged is widely recognized. Rep. Loveridge reported on the recent re-cent White House Conference on Aging. |
