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Show 6A The Salt Uke Tuesday. February Tribune, 11, 1986 Bill to Protect Pound Animals Wins Support ment-rupounds to supply authorized research centers with animals on demand, although some shelter directors refuse to comply with the By Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writer Government-ruanimal shelters would no longer have to supply pound animals to research facilities on demand, according to a bill approved by a Senate committee Monday. The Senate also advanced a bill designed to add $4 million a year to the general fund and approved final passage of a measure to help widows and divorced women become n n law. Backers of the bill claim the mandatory requirement of supplying animals on demand opens up the possibility of a family pet picked up by a dogcatcher being subjected to painful experiments. Opponents of the current practice claim research facilities can breed dogs and other animals specifically for the purpose of research, without including domestic animals. But medical researchers told the committee the bill would drastically reduce their ability to perform valuable experiments that have led in the past to breakthroughs in medical science. . The Senate Health Committee passed out favorably a measure sponsored by Sen. Verl Asay that would allow county and municipal pounds to decide for themselves whether they want to give animals to medical research facilities. The current law requires govern Sen. John Holmgren, River City, noted the state could be eligible for grant money from a national animal shelter foundation if it did not have the rule of mandatory compliance to a request for research animals. He said Brigham City has lost more than $100,000 in possible grant money from the foundation because of the mandatory rule. The measure will now go to the full Senate for its consideration. Senators approved final passage of the Displaced Homemakers Bill when they agreed to recede from earlier amendments they had made to the House bill. The bill imposes a $20 fees to crehike on marriage-licens- e ate a fund to help divorced women and widows learn job skills. Senate Bill Would Reduce Utahs Holidays by Two By Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writer all the controversy over whether Utah should have an official Martin Luther King Jr. Day and, if so, which holiday that special observance should replace, one senator has come up with a new twist: Instead of worrying about a new state holiday, get rid of two existing With ones. Sen. Wayne Sandberg, Lake, introduced a bill Monday that would reduce the number of state holidays by two, abolishing Columbus Day and lt the currently recognized employees personal preference day, which is taken at the individual workers pleasure. Sen. Sandberg, who has been a see vere critic of productivity, came up with the proposal in the midst of a controversy between the Senate and the House over which current holiday should be replaced by the proposed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which would fall on the third I ."Monday in January. The Senate passed a bill replacing Columbus Day, which falls in October, with the Martin Luther King Jr. 7" holiday. But the House amended the bill to replace Lincolns Birthday, t Feb. 12. with the King Day, and com- bine Lincoln's day with Washington's Birthday as a single Presidents Day, I to fall on the third Monday in Febru-- l ary. public-employe- The two chambers have been unable to reach an agreeable compromise, and the House voted Monday to appoint a conference committee to work out a solution between the Senate and House. But Sen. Sandberg's bill would forgo that hassle. It would simply cut the number of official state holidays from 11 to 10 and do away with the personal preference day, which for all practical purposes constitutes a 12th holiday for state employees. Sen. Sandberg has complained about government-worke- r productivity several times since debate began on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday bill. He said government workers altoo have many days off and ready cited figures indicating state employees already have the equivalent of 53 days of paid time off. He has been challenged on that figure by members of the Utah Public Employees Association, however, and has said he is including lunchtimes and coffee breaks in the figures. Currently, Utah employees have the 11 state holidays and 13 days of vacation time, including the personal preference day. Sen. Sandberg has complained that too much idle time among government workers has contributed to the federal deficit and the United States negative trade balance. The only difference between the Senate version and the House version was the House bill had the women pay the money back to the state as they are able. The Senate version made the payback provision voluntary. Representatives in the House would not go along with the voluntary provision, thinking it would allow the women to avoid paying the money back altogether. The Senate voted to go along with the House wording in order to get the bill through the Legislature. The Senate advanced for final consideration a measure that would put the interest earned from the money already placed in a special Water Resources Conservation and Development Fund in the general fund. The interest earned from that fund, LEGISLATIVE Passed Revamp statutes related to public education fiscal procedures. By Senate Resolutions Passed SCR1 (Banoerter) Commend the Governor's tosk force on youth alcohol ond Bills HB81 (Bradford) 24-- drugs. By Senate 21-HCR3 (Merrill) Resolve that Utahns oppose illegal drug abuse and declare third week of January as Red Ribbon Week and the year 1986 as Drug Buster Year. By Senate 21-- SB219 (L. Peterson) Issue $46 million of general obligation bonds to finance various capital projects. SB220 (Bangerter) Relating to medical assault, prohibit threats of transmitting a communicable disease. Eliminate Columbus Day and Personal Preference Day as legal holidays in the state. SB222 (McMullin) Repeal chapters in the Alcohol Production Incentive Act. SB223 (Cornaby) Implement a uniform tax on personal property. Bills Killed SB98 (Carling) Amend law governing licensing of hearing aid dealers. Killed by SB221 (Sandberg) Senate HB87 (U. Knowlton) Repeal continuing education requirements for physicians under state licensing act. Killed by Senate 14-- (Need 15 votes to pass.) HOUSE Bills Resolutions Possed HJR21 (Walker) Relating to the homestead exemption and property rights of married people. By House 63-HCR12 (Hunter) Declare July 1986 as Utah Summer Games Week; commend the Utah Summer Games Foundation and Cedar City for sponsoring the 1986 Utah Summer Games. By House 63-Bills Introduced (DeMann) Amendments concerning Industrial development bonds. HB322 (Pace) Implement a noncontrlb-utor- y plan with early retirement for pubHB321 lic Bills Introduced Passed HB51 (Burningham) Establish additional duties and objectives for the Division of State History. By House 43-2HB118 (Walker) Provide funds to juvenile court for guardian ad-lite- m services. By House 57-HB179 (Warnick) Provide for additional restrictions on persons riding in open vehicles. By House employees. HB323 (Wilson) flood-contr- House Passes Resolution Touting Summer Carnes The Utah House of Representatives has passed a resolution to recognize Utah Summer Games Week in Cedar City in July. The event will pit high school, college and other amateur Utah athletes in an Olympic-lik- e competition meet. The games are sanctioned by the U.S. Olympic Committee. House Demo Chiefs Support Changing Legislature Dates A iowwriyflmi 29th Doy SENATE which has been created to deal with profuture water and jects, is about $4 million a year, said Sen. Holmgren, the bills sponsor, and would be a way to help balance the beleaguered budget, which is currently about $24 million in the red. The Senate also unanimously passed resolutions denouncing drug and alcohol abuse and creating May 18, as well as the entire month of March as special observance days devoted to stamping out the illegal use of drugs. The resolutions received some criticism last week from Sen. Karl who said it was fine Swan, to pass resolutions denouncing drug and alcohol abuse, but the Legislature should back their words with funds devoted to keeping illegal drugs out of the state. Amendments to annex- ation laws. HB324 (Pace) Amend provisions relating to the filing of insurance rates; specify procedures for notice, hearing, early effective dates for rates and rate refunds. HB325 (F. Knowlton) Provide an income tax flat rate on adjusted gross Income. HB326 (Pace) Amend provisions relating to the state insurance fund. HB327 (Skousen) Amendments providing protection for odopted children, birth parents and adoptive parents. HB328 (Selleneit) Require certain licensed health care professionals to comply with informed consent requirements or be guilty of unprofessional conduct. HB329 (Holt) Require local school district to develop and Implement a prevention and enforcement program related to the use and abuse of controlled substances In public schools. Resolutions Introduced HJR31 (Dmitrich, Wharton, Lewis) Chonge the beginning of the annual general session of the Utah Legislature from January to February. Bills Killed HJR14 (Wharton) Ask the federal government to stop all nuclear testing and resume negotiations on the comprehensive test ban treaty. Killed by House (Removed enacting clause.) By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer Dealing more with the budget's bite than winters, Utah House Democratic leaders are advocating moving the Legislatures annual sessions closer to spring. A resolution they have introduced would change the start of the lawsessions from the secmakers' ond Monday in January to the second designed to Monday in February give budget planners more of a head start on accurate revenue projections and a hedge on deficits. subcomThese appropriations mittee meetings really dont mean anything now, said House Minority Leader Mike Dmitrich, stressing that the budget is the most important thing we do here. With the subcommittees due to yield to the Legislatures executive appropriations panel this week, lawmakers are still waiting for the quarterly tax report reflecting how the y Under the existing timetable, the Legislature is packaging budgets for the new fiscal year four months before they take effect on July 1. House Joint Resolution 31 would shorten that lag period by a month. The reason sessions now begin in is largely to accomodate the idle time of farmers and ranchers, and the constitutional was drafted with that in mind 90 years ago. January In recent interviews on holding sessions later in the year, many lawmakers said they favored a Feburary- March or even a March-Apr- il schedule. They doubted it would de- tract from the seasonal pursuits of farmers, builders, realtors or others who prefer to serve in the Legislature in the winter. As a state constitutional amend- ment, the proposal would take two- third majority support by representa- tives and senators to be placed on the 1986 ballot. Otherwise, the idea would have to wait for voters approval in 1985 Christmas shopping season 1988, the next time a statewide ballot helped (or hurt) state revenues. is presented. The current session ends Feb. 26, Several lawmakers recognize the while the resolution would shift d predicament that, parleys to an early February-lat- e budget of late, has required governors to call March schedule. Moving the sessions start back a special legislative sessions in June to month would make budgeting more remedy fiscal emergencies. However, those cool to more precise. Rep. Dmitrich said Monday. sessions say budget prob- spring-lik- e It would give us more data to address the current years budget and lems have not been of the magnitude help in projecting tax intake for to warrant a shift in the sessions schedule. next year's, he said. legi-salti- I t I ju jl ( f j 1 I ft I t? J i 1 I 1 House Drops Criminal Penalty in Bill Compelling Teachers to Report Drug Use By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer Utah representatives began debate Monday on a bill to compel teachers or school administrators to tell parents that they suspect their children are using drugs or alcohol. While most House members embraced the concept, a clause to subject teachers to a criminal penalty if they fail to report what they know cost Rep. Frances Hatch Merrill her sponsorship. Instead, representatives agreed to work from Rep. Scott Holts version of House Bill 205, which drops the Class-misdeameanor edict and protects an educators identity. "The teachers felt if they had to act as a squealer, they couldnt work with their students, said Rep. Holt, adding that anonymity may also protect them from lawsuits. He emphasized that the measure still requires educators to convey their suspicions to parents, which they're going to do. Theyre good citizens. If teachers know, the parents will know. Lake, said But Rep. Merrill, the bill embodied recommendations from a gubernatorial task force on youth, alcohol and drugs and should remain intact. This is a parents rights bill, she said before colleagues voted to go with the Holt approach. Other representatives tried in vain to salvage the Merrill version and her sponsorship, arguing that the penalty would assure better compliance. If we were to carry this logic to the extreme, we would say, Let's pe lt Bangerters Request Reduced Legislator In The Spotlight Funds for School Volunteers Halved by Subcommittee By , ! . Peter Scarlet House Panel Favors Sex Education If Parents Present Continued From A-- l with a sense of morality that parents agree with. Legislative support of community-anschool-baseprograms for parents and children are "designed to help reduce the number of pregnancies to unmarried teens," he added. d d The state pregnancies ported 4.543 teen-agduring 1983, according to HJR29. They resulted in 1,142 births and 880 induced abortions. Among the reasons listed for pro-- ; moting sex education in HJR29 are medical studies that show teen-ag- e pregnancy and childbirth cause increased health risks for young mothers and their children. Department of Health re- e I Legislators also are concerned that the state is burdened by the effects of teen-ag- e pregnancy, the resolution says, since 71 percent of females under age 30 receiving assistance from Aid to Families with Dependent Chil" dren had their first child as a teen-ager.- ; The resolution continues that "the s on matters education of their sexuality is an im- concerning portant step in addressing teen-agpregnancy and its attendant prob-- ; lems. HJE29 was forwarded to the House j floor. teen-ager- e I Revamped Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee, came after committee members defeated a motion to restore about $4.9 million in funding to programs previously reduced by the lawmakers. JorSen. Brent Overson, dan, raised objections to funding the governors request similar to those he expressed last Friday. He argued that lawmakers ought to fund existing programs before allocating funds for new ones, such as the one sought by the governor in his educational ALERT program. Before finding money for volunteers, the legislator told his colleagues they should first restore funding cuts to critical school building, the state's deaf and blind schools in Ogden, area vocational centers, year-rounschooling and the state d school office. Although committee members defeated the senator's motion, they ended up appropriating only $450,000 of the $1 million recommended by the governor for the training of school officials and volunteers. Broken down, $100,000 of the money will be used to train administrators and teachers on how to best use volunteers while the remaining $350,000 will go for incentives for excellence," a program in which funds will be distributed to local school districts when the districts obtain matching funds from the private sector. Carol Clark, the governor's education specialist, said Gov Rangerter's office didn't view the appropriation less than half of what the governor as a setback had suggested - Rather, she said it was a reasonable amount for the first year of the program Dr Clark pointed out the $100,000 for training would be made available soon so educators could receive the training before the upcomschool veal begins ing 1986-8- The parental-notificatioprovisions are cast in a general law pertaining to informed consent for all n health care, with the to reinforce the state's legal dispute with the federal government over withdrawal of s assistance due to a separate 1983 law dealing specifically with parental consent on contraceptive services. SB191 would require physicians and nurses to obtain consent, in person or in writing, from a minor's parent or guardian before administering health care. Violation would subject practitioners to disciplinary action for unprofessional conduct, such as license revocation or suspension, by the appropriate state licensure board. health care is described as that not immediately nor imminently necessary to protect health, and where any delay occasioned by an attempt to obtain consent wouldn't jeopardize the life, health, or welfare of the patient. The bill specifically provides that health care includes the performance of an abortion or the implantation, distribution or prescription of drugs and devices for the purposes of preventing pregnancy. The rewritten proposed act also aim in part health-service- Rep. Lloyd Frandsen is proud of being a rural-distrilawmaker who made it big in a big-cit- y suburb. After serving two terms as a southern Utah representative from a vast geographical area and at 26, the youngest lawmaker elected then the Republican moved but made a comeback courtesy of the folks of South Jordan, representing their district for two terms now. As of the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee, Rep. Frandsen said the main task for him this session "is to see that the education reform movements in place are adequately funded." He advocates continuation of teacher career-ladde- r and pupil "productivity" programs, includeducation" ing "outcome-basethat rewards student performance with potential grade acceleration "rather than how long " they sit in a seat Rep Frandsen, 37 today, is an insurance executive by profesd sion , A. enumerates other services that shouldn't be considered including examinations to diagnose health disorders, first aid administered by school health personnel, treatment for parental abuse, drug and alcohol dependency, communicable diseases, preg Pi measure until any budgetary consequences could be determined. message with foregin policy stands. With the Sykes amendments con- tained, representatives decided 8 to remove the resolutions enacting clause, which rendered it inactive. Finally, the House advanced a bill to the Senate by a that would require occupants in the back of a pickup truck or other open vehicle to sit or lie down, with the tailgate secured, when the vehicle is traveling. Rep. Boyd Warnick, said the measure was a compromise to a sentiment to ban anyone from riding in a truck bed. 42-1- Backtracking on action they took Friday, the House killed a resolution nucalling for a ban on Nevada-sit- e clear weapon testing after Rep. RobLake City, made ert Sykes, amendments to condition endorsement to a temperance of Soviet Union aggression. The resolutions sponsor. Rep. Blaze Wharton, Lake, said he was a little offended that Rep. Sykes would shroud the measures lt D-S- Parental-Conse- nt By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor The attempt to rewrite a state law requiring parental consent for minors to obtain contraceptive devices vetoed six months ago by Gov. Norm Bangerter is back before the Utah Senate awaiting committee hearing. Sen. Dona Wayment, has drafted a new version in Senate Bill 191, seeking to overcome some of the faults cited by the governor in vetoing the earlier version following a 1985 summer special session of the Legisidiu e. That action, taken by the Joint Tribune Education Editor Members of a legislative appropri- ations subcommittee Monday agreed to provide less than half of the $1 mil- lion requested by Gov. Norm Bangerter to finance school volunteers in Utah's public schools. nalize a neighbor who suspects your kid's on drugs, countered Rep. Dale an educator. Warner, He said legislators might as well pass a law that drug dealers turn themselves in. A high school instructor. Rep. Kim said, "I Burningham, dont think I, or many teachers, have the expertise to know with conviction that this drug or alcohol use is taking place among students. He favored the bill without the penalty. The House delayed voting on the nancy testing and prenatal counseling. Gov. Bangerter had complained of a lack of public hearing and debate on the informed consent bill passed at last summers special session, and also exercised his veto for what he called "unresolved questions over the earlier bills scope: whether it affected school health care, child abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and applied to each separate health condition treated. In Sen. Wayments remodeled legislation clarifying those points there is also a provision that once parental consent is given for the administrahealth care, it tion of remains in force and is applicable to all other health-car- e providers continuing a course of treatment for the 45-2- 4 Bill Appears initial condition or others stemming from it. Gov. Bangerter, on vetoing the old SB10 out of the special session, encouraged a new version be drafted for the current legislative session, stating that he endorses the concept of parental consent in obtaining contraceptive devices or counseling. Sen. Wayments new bill also includes a mechanism for minors to anonymously petition a district court to give judicial consent to health care without parental consent if the petitioner is deemed to be sufficiently mature and disclosure would jeopardize that persons health or welfare. The elaborate court procedure also calls for expedited appellate review by the Utah Supreme Court of such actions where conflict remains. Bill to Set Admission Standards At Specialty Schools Is Tabled By Peter Scarlet Tribune Education Editor The Senate Education Standing Committee on Monday tabled a bill that would have set up admission standards for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind and called for students to be placed in less restrictive programs when available. make this as uncontroversial as possible, said Rep. Frandsen. Once you understand the history behind this, I think youll be comfortable with it." He said the issue of the outreach programs operated by the schools outside the Ogden area had nothing to do with his bill. However, meetings with parents The senators tabled the bill after since the measure first came to the standing committee last week apparhearing from several parents of stuently fail .d to allay concerns and dents in the schools and their outreach programs who objected to the fears. measure. Craig Edwards, chairman of the Parent Coalition for the school for the In addition to fears that the legisladeaf, asked the lawmakers to table tion would be the first step in transthe bill and suggested that the whole ferring outreach programs from the matter be studied by the LegislaOgden-basespecialty schools to loture's Education Interim Committee cal school districts, parents exthis year. pressed discomfort with an amenddenials Rep. Frandsen ment proposed by Sen Dix H. andDespite Bates of by the State Office of Doug Jordan. McMullin, Education, Mr. Edwards said the bill The measure, House Bill 65, was would affect the outreach programs. Robert Taylor, PTA president of sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Frandsen, Jordan and would have given the schools outreach programs in the the Utah State Board of Education Provo, Orem area, said the wording the authority to set admission stanof the bill would let local school disdards. tricts take control of outreach pro"We've made a concert J effort to grams. r d 5 I j 1) I |
