Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-20 | Page 18 | Board is Urged to Frame Laws

I BOARD IS URGED TO FRAME LAWS LA WS Every Ever Utahn should be permitted to propose laws for his state tate The foregoing proposition was wa laid Inid before the Salt Lake real estate board d 0 by Byron D D. Anderson former for for- roer mer Republican state chairman a aa at ata at a meeting meeting- in the chamber of or com corn merce Wednesday noon Pointing to results obtained b bj by bythe the tho 1935 legislature as an example of oC procedure he roundly condemned Mr Anderson recommended radical changes in m the manner in which suite state laws are arc made Legislation should not be left to toI I legislators alone he said ald I It J American democracy is to achieve greatest suc success every citizen should become legislation minded because Jaws laws affect not only hi his hie pocketbook but his entire entre way o or ol living Mr Anderson recommended es cs establishment of n a Utah legislative commission to which all al proposed sills bills bis could be he given at least 60 days before the election electon None would be bc introduced during the session except except ex ex- under suspension of the rules He admitted that since Utah elec- elec lons tons are arc held early in November most of the bills bis to be considered consid consid- ere ered cred during the session wo would ld have to o be in the commissions commission's hands before before be- be fore oro legislators were selected but bul said that an any person who chose I should have the ri right ht to propose a bill bi The speaker suggested that the governor be empowered to appoint a legislative e commission of 15 whose duty would be to see that all al bills bis are nrc properly written to conduct hearings on controversial measures md rind to be in position to inform the as to which groups favored end fud nd which opposed each bill bi Objections Ob- Ob and arguments In favor avor could be listed All Al proposed hills bills his would be introduced intro- intro during the first day or two of the session and le legislators would thereafter hereafter be free to work on them he ht ic explained The present legislative e setup Mr Anderson continued allows a hopel hope- hope l ess ss congestion of bills bis introduced toward oward the end of the session which militates against passage of oC much Important legislation and which J makes akes for slip shod shod voting by legis- legis who have not had time to digest proposed laws At present many bills big are not introduced introduced in- in until the fortieth day orthe of or the lie session he said During thelast the last ast twenty da days s legislators to com com- lete their program must act on a dozen ozen a day on most of which they are re uninformed He Ho declared that the ic legislative commission system would eliminate rolling log lo In conclusion he pointed to the fact act ac that more than bills bis died in ill i sifting committees during the thes session s sion just closed cosed as evidence of i the ic need of oC a n commission Mr Anderson was a member of oC the he house of representatives in 1927 and nd 1929