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Show LAST LEGISLATURE ACTIONS BECOME EFFECTIVE NOW Nine laws, dealing with taxation, taxa-tion, appropriations, welfare and education, which were passed on during the 1927 legislative session, ses-sion, became law July 1. This date marks the end of the fiscal year and the beginning of ' the new biennium. The state finds itself possessor of the largest larg-est accumulation in the general fund in history, $2,207,235, and with a large budget. Included in laws igolng into effect ef-fect Thursday are some designed to plug revenue gaps In the state's coffers. Among these Is H. B. 75, conceived to prevent removal of property to escape accumulated taxes. S. B. 185 enacts a 2 per cent use tax aimed aim-ed to stop evasion of the sales tax; S. B. 66 provides for filing of bimonthly returns instead of monthly, while S. B. 73 leaves $700,000 appropriation stymied from liquor revenue, passed to make up losses expected from enactment en-actment of the homestead exemption, exemp-tion, which met with gubernatorial guberna-torial veto. New Standards Sot S. B. 180 sets up jiew standards stand-ards regulating sale of gasoline, while i series ot welfare laws also goes into effect. S. B. 2 provides pro-vides pensions up to $30 monthly for persons over 65 years of age, providing . the state can finance such a program, and eliminates investigation of pensioners' relatives rela-tives and eliminates property liens. S. B. 128 provides aid to the blind, needy children and dependent de-pendent mothers. S. B. 129 sets up administration administra-tion of the welfare program, requiring re-quiring counties to raise 15 per cent of relief costs through property pro-perty levies and B. 78 appropriates appro-priates $100,000 for a vocational education program to be directed direct-ed by the state department of public instruction. .yv . |