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Show Legislative process efficient in Utah While it may not always appear so, especially when the Utah Legislature enters the final hectic days of a session, the legislative process in Utah is comparatively more efficient than that of most other states. ' This was the conclusion reached by the Utah Foundation, a private research organization, in a comparative study of legislative workloads in the United States. The conclusion was based on the fact that fewer bills are introduced in Utah and the survival rate (or percentage enacted) is above average. Throughout the United States there were nearly a . quarter million legislative measures (bills, resolutions, etc.) considered by state legislatures during the two-year period 1977 and 1978. The number of measures introduced varied from a high of 35,923 in New York to a low of 928 in Wyoming. Utah, with 1,344 bills and resolutions during this two-year period, was well below the U.S. average of 4,651 per state and ranked 48th among the fifty states. The report observed that there are many who would applaud Utah's low ranking in the number of bills introduced and enacted. These individuals in-dividuals have become increasingly alarmed about growing government govern-ment involvement over the private affairs of its citizens. According to the Foundation analysis, the legislative workload has tended to increase over the years, not only in Utah, but also across the nation., Between 1958-1959 1958-1959 and 1977-1978 the legislative workload in Utah has risen by 121 percent. This increase is only slightly less than the 124 percent increase in the number of measures considered by the state legislatures throughout the nation during this period. Not only has the number of measures introduced grown, but also the number of measures that are finally enacted into law. Between Bet-ween the 1958-1959 and the 1977-1978 periods, the number of measures enacted rose by 121 percent in Utah compared com-pared with an average increase of 92 percent for the nation as a whole. The study notes that Utah is higher than average in the percentage of measures introduced that actually are enacted into law. During the 1977-1978 period, approximately 35 percent of the proposals introduced were passed by the. legislature in Utah. Nationally, the survival rate of proposed legislation averaged 28 percent and ranged all the way from a high of 72 percent in Georgia, to a low of 5 percent in New York. |