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Show Page 20-T- Provo, Utah. Thursday, March HERALD, HE 24, 1977 A People Who Make Headlines M more Gov. matheson oigns Bills Just Prior to Deadline - SALT LAKE CITY UPI A pair of bills designed to crack down on hardcore pornography in Utah will become law in early May. The measures, which will allow seizure of the profits of pornographic bookstores and theaters and require distributers of hard-corfilms to register with the state, were signed by Gov. Scott Matheson. They were among 32 bills approved by the governor in the hours prior to the Tuesday midnight deadline for signing, vetoing or letting measures passed by the 1977 Legislature become law without his signature. Sen. Dean Jeffs, sponsored the two measures. One modifies current statutes to tighten up their language and to allow prosecutors to file public nuisance suits I e anti-por- n The bills signed by Matheson in the final hours before the deadline included: SB118 (Finlinson) Enlarge membership of advisory council to Peace Officers Standards and Training. SB128 (Snow) Make permanent body of the Constitutional Revision Study commission with appointment of new members. SB138 (Beck) Change the percentage allocation of the federal mineral lease revenue received by the state and set up new community impact account and natural resource development council. SB139 (Bunnell) Provide for allocation of $12.4 million in state funds to school districts for building aid. SB149 (Beck) Establish board to administer and distribute funds placed into community impact account from federal lease revenue. SB158 (Finlinson) Enact Utah Product Liability Act to set limits on legal action for damages from defective gmds. SB189 (Jeffs) Enact new restrictions and penalties involved in maintaining a public nuiunce by handling por- HB226 (Hansen I Provides for licensing of insurance consultants. HB267 (Hansen, Carlisle) An act enabling muncipalities and counties to support the arts. HB279 (Wimmer) Mandate a court order be obtained before a state agency can obtain the financial records of an individual from financial institution. I1B297 (Hansen) Bring current laws in relation to workmen's compensation into conformity with present practice. HB311 (LeFevre, et. al ) In relation to the state boating act, delete the exclusion of a vessel with a valid federal marine document from definitions of "motorboat" or "sailboat." HB323 (Bangerter, Harvey, Hansen) r against purveyors of pornography. It Provide a mandatory also allows the courts to order sentence for persons who are convicted forfeiture of profits. of crimes when they have used deadly The other bill requires film disweapons. HB437 (Dennis, et. al.) Appropriatributors to register with the secretary of state and sign pledges not to cirtions for payments due on bonds issued nographic materials, including culate films violating the state by institutions of higher learning. forfeiture of earnings. HB461 (Rawson) Reduce percentage SB190 (Jeffs) Provide new registraobscenity laws. The measure provides for fines and mandatory jail terms for of sales tax charged on utility bills to tion requirements for film distributors those who fail to register or who circonsumers. with mandatory fines and jail HB462 (McAllister) Appropriate $713 sentences for failure to register or circulate pornographic movies. The registration bill was adopted as a million for general operation of state culating ponographic movies. substitute for a measure which would SB191 (Finlinson) Provide for the government. have set up a state film censorship SB10 (Black) Require casualty insu- adoption of conforming and corrective board. Theater owners lobbied heavily rance companies to establish amendments to sections of Uniform against that version, arguing it would policyholder security accounts to pay Commercial Code. drive legitimate movie houses in small SB193 (Waddingham) Authorize lor claims in cases of insolvency. towns out of business and make it imSB22 (Howe) Establish new circuit redevelopment agencies within cities court system statewide to supplant city and counties to make long-terpossible to show films appealing to small audiences. loans to finance residential courts. Matheson wrapped up his action on SB51 (Pugh) Conform slate income rehabilitation in selected deteriorating 360 bills and resolutions approved by tax base to the federal taxable income areas. SB216 (Snow) Amend law governing the lawmakers by allowing 16 reported, excepting inclusion of inmeasures to become law without his creased federal personal exemptions, improvement districts to clarify and standard deductions, including low authority for issuing new contracts for signature and vetoing 15 others. waste and water treatment to require He approved bills tacking an adincome allowance. ditional term on the sentences SB54 (Bunnell) Specify countv riehts retreatment. of persons convicted of using a firearm to share or enter into interlocal agreein commission of a felony, setting up a tax payments tor spending new circuit court system to replace ments from federal government. SB57 (Pugh) Make technical amendcity courts, reducing the state sales tax on utility bills by three per cent, ments to law describing items added and subtracted from federal taxable increating an optional energy conservation building code, and setting up a come for purposes of figuring state instate fund to help local communities come tax. combat "boom town" growth due to SB61 (Pugh) Change tax apportionment assignments under the multistate energy development. The governor said he thought the tax compact dealing with corporate inState Constitution should be changed to come tax. SB104 (Carling) Make changes in give him more time to consider the bills passed by the lawmakers. juvenile court system to provide for At present, he has 10 days, excluding district directors of court services and Sundays, to decide. staff; interdistrict transfer of cases; allowance for issuing search warrants; Many of the bills didn't reach his office until shortly before the deadline procedure for disposal of contraband because they had to be printed and evidence. checked by the legislative staff. They SB109 (Barlow) Provide for adoption were then sent to the attorney statewide of an energy conservation code for new building on a local option general's office for review of their conbasis by all political subdivisons and stitutionality. Matheson said the huge number of school districts. bills passed in the closing days of the SB117 (Barlow Provide for sale of session didn't give him enough time to governor's residence and using funds to restore the Kearns Mansion as new properly go over all the measures prior to the deadline at midnight. home for governor. one-yea- KI hi'Z ' r f ' j I y fi i - u V time. An attorney for the Court petition singer filed a Superior Tuesday for a legal separation from Allman after 21 months of marriage. It said she separated from Allman last Saturday and asked for custody of unsepcified property and child support son, Elijah Blue. for their She married Allman three days after r w --a- - ;iw longtime performing divorcing Bono. Five days after the wedding, she filed for a divorce, Alsaying "I made a misake." She and lman reconciled and she canceled the divorce action three weeks later. Then, months later, Allman filed in a Georgia court for a divorce, but they again partner, Sonny made Sx V up. BIONIC GROUCHO HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Groucho Marx celebrated his release from 19 days in a hospital, where his right hip was replaced with a steel and plastic joint, by warbling a few tunes with Carroll O'Connor, TV's Archie Bunker. comedian is one of The the oldest persons ever to undergo the hip replacement operation, said his surgeon, Dr. Robert Rosenfeld. Marx Medical Center Tuesleft Cedars-Sina- i day in a wheelchair, but walked 40 feet unaided at his home, the surgeon said. O'Connor dropped by for lunch to celebrate the release and he and Marx had a belated St. Patrick's day celebration, singing Irish songs. - see also Page 41 of Herald. Above, he signs a today's bill increasing the penalty for of using persons convicted firearms in the commission of a crime. Behind him are students of the Salt Lake Freemont Elementary School who supported the bill. UPI Telephoto. deadline, UTAH GOVERNOR SCOTT MATHESON got a lot of practice this week reproducing his signing bills passed signature by the last legislature into law, or, in the case of 15 listed on page 22, vetoing them. For the host of bills he signed into law in the final few days before the one-ye- pzzrr u A. ? , i SPLIT AGAIN MONICA, Calif. (UPI) -Cher Bono Allman and rock musician Gregg Allman have spit up for the third SANTA J - g o MI -- 'l DoorCresher I CV Friday 10 a.m. no phonemail, qty. limit. Reg. $23 to $25 long or short sleeve V. I J&jfX ( ' Q k W JWS jjNw X7: Weber Legislators Angered By Matheson Veto of Bill - Judd said it should be up to legislature to dispose of state property. House Republican leader Ronald Weber County (UPI) legislators reacted angrily Wednesday to Gov. Scott Matheson's veto of a bill turning Ogden's old St. Benedict's Hospital into a veterans' nursing home and a piece of Weber State College's OGDEN Matheson of reneging on his campaign pledges to Weber County residents. "During the campaign, he said, "Give me a Democratic legislature and then see all the good things I'll do for Weber County,'" said Halverson. "I guess this is one of those good things." Renstrom said the governor had asked Weber County lawmakers what to do with the building and when they campus. They labeleo the building, bought for $2 8 million by the state last year, as "Matheson's accused Halverson, whe elephant." The bill would converted the hospital into a nursing home for vets financed by federal and state governments and the outbuildings into an addition to the WSC campus for use by the school's nursing program "Gov. Matheson has placed his political career in serious jeopardy in Weber County.'' stormed Sen. Darrell Henstrom. told him, he vetoed the bill. 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