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Show The Paper Tliat Dares TiTake A Stand T- Council Members medical care foundation concept; second, it attempts to provide a regulatory monitoring system to prevent or remedy abuses and to assist in the future improvement and development of this form of health care delivery system. A. Rhodes, Director, State Legislative State Building Oregon: Sam R. Haley, Director, Department of Trans- Philip D. Lang, Member, House of Representatives Pennsylvania: Harry R. J. Comer. Member, House of Representatives Thomas J. Kalman, Chief Clerk of the Senate Oliver L. Thompson, Manufactured Building Act Jr., Administrative Assistai Henry L. Lake, Director, Legislative Council South Dakota: . Utah: This model Act provides for the creation of a Building Code Council which, with a designated Administrative Agency, would be responsible for evaluating building systems and promulgating standards, rules and regula tions for the approval, certification and inspection of manufactured build-Sou- th ings. Oren P. Coler, Code Counsel, Legislative Resear Council Tennessee: Code Act This model Act provides for the creation of a Building Code Council with broad authority to adopt, amend or repeal rules and regulations governing the construction and inspection of buildings' for compliance with the State Building Code which it may also adopt. Provision is made for uniform standards, public hearings, appeals, fees, and enforcement by the appropriate state and local agencies. Joint Committee on Legislative Affairs Carolina: it of the model bill Is twofold: first, attempts to proand framework functioning of health enabling the organization legal maintenance organizations of a wide variety,' including those based upon the vide a Council Rhode Island: relief, civil Injunctive posed. Vermont: William Doyle, Member of the Senate Proposed Virginia: John lations are proposed. Boatwright, Jr., Commissioner on Uniform State Laws Brockenbrough Lamb, Jr., Commissioner on Un form State Laws B. Robert L. Charette, Member, House of Representatives Gordon L. Walgren, Member of the Senate - 7 V. . ' i 3 - . v C Joseph C. Czerwinski, Member of the Assembly Ernest C. Keppler, Member of the Senate H. Rupert Theobald, Chief, Legislative Reference Wisconsin: Law Regulating . State Poison Prevention Act The purpose of the model Act is to help reduce injuries to and illness of. young children arising from accidental ingestion of, substances produced or distributed for sale for consumption, use or storage in the home. To accomplish this purpose, special packaging, difficult, for children under six to open,' would be required. commend & 'loececcceececececceocccccceeeeeoereccoececeeeecc Food U.S. in nine government agencies Senator Jesse Helms has been commended by a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee for his initiative in bringing to light the extensive personal use vehicles. of government-owne- d under jurisdiction of Sen.' Proxmire s subcommittee. Helms several months ago asked the General Accounting Office to supply him with a list of every limousine owned or . leased -- by the federal government , and every chauffeur on the payroll. Helms revealed that he had made the request after seeing big, sleek automobiles lined, up on both sides of the street with their motors running, waiting for the federal bureaucrats attending a party to come out. He joined Senator William in pushing Proxmire through an amendment in the Senate to eliminate sixteen (D-Wi- government-owne- d s.) limousines There has never been any justification for this rather raid on the pocketbooks, Helms said. He called it chronic affliction in the a executive branch of government for a generation. Helms was recently asked by a TV reporter if his actions at directed cutting unnecessary government-owne- d use out of vehicle, not make hiig unpopular with the would bureaucrats. His I reply: didnt come up here to win a popularity contest with the bureaucrats. Let them drive like the their own cars-ju- st hardworking taxpayers back home have to do. Jesse Helms North Carolina -- Senator Legislative Process is Intended to aid state legislators and legislative necessary rules and regulations. -- Administrative responsibility for. the operation of programs established within standards under the Act for cement authority would repose in the state Commissioner of Health. LET THEM BUY THEIR OWN taxpayers The This suggested legislation would establish specific medical and ethical disorders. would principles by which public and private programs onto hereditary, the state Conmissioner of be regulated. It would create an advisory board were met and would restandards would Health which assist in seeing general Representative of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws pompous Interference With Hereditary Disorders Act Ex Officio Member, Advisory only. .) way personnel to maintain security for normal operations of the Legislature, while perserving the right to petition, the right of free speech and dissent, and the right of access to public places. Representatives Ralph E. Thomas, Director, Services Division. Legislative Service Office (R-N.C- Traffic way off-high- This model Act WASHINGTON and penal sanctions for vio- and . Ward G. Myers, Member, House of Wyoming: Off-High- relief, civil purpose of this proposed law Model Act Concerning Bureau Injunctive is to promote the protection of perenvironment the sons, property by providing reasonable regulations locations. covering the operation of most motor vehicles at many which motor of vehicle operation is presently outIt represents regulation side the scope of the Uniform Vehicle Code. Together the proposed law and Uniform Vehicle Code constitute a comprehensive regulatory plan covering all necessary regulation of motor vehicle operation within a state. The Model Carl M. Frasure, Department of Political Scieno West Virginia University " I for violation are pro This model Act provides for the creation of a Building Code Council with responsibility to adopt codes, standards and requirements which would apply to mobile homes. A designated Administrative Agency would evaluate and approve mobile home systems and manufacturers compliance assurance programs. Certification procedures would be established and inspections James Free, Chief Clerk, House of Representatives Alan Spain, Administrative Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor would be conducted. West Virginia: and penal sanctions Mobile Home Act C. DeMont Judd, Jr., Member, House of Representatives Dixie Leavitt, Member of the Senate Washington: The Utah Independent Page 9 The purpose Bryce A. Baggett, Commissioner on Uniform State Laws ' Jack 1973 Continued from page 8 Model Health Maintenance Organization Act Paul E. Gillmor, Member of the Senate Alan E. Norris, Member, House of Representatives Oklahoma: 15, THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY Continued From Page 8 Oh,o: f'November and Statements, Alteration or Misuse of Documents Stamps-Fal- se This Act would provide penal sanctions for making 'false statements knowingly to Influence the action of any state agency in the certification of households under the Food Stamp Program. Similar sanctions would apply to knowingly using, transferring, acquiring, altering or possessing food coupons or authorizations in a manner not authorized by the Food Stamp Act. Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact - Amendment Article to the Interstate Civil Defense and designed to make it clearly usable in disaster or other Amendment would add an Disaster Compact emergency aid of whatever cause or nature. Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act interstate a This Act, prepared by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, establishes guidelines for the management and use of investments held by eleemosynary institutions and funds. It provides (1) a standard of prudent use of appreciation in invested funds; (2) a specific investment authority; (3) authority to delegate investment decisions; (4) a standard of business care and prudence to guide governing boards in the exercise of their duties under the Act; and (5) a method of releasing restrictions on use of funds or selection of .investments by donor acquiesence or court action. -- Uniform Public Assembly Act State This Act, prepared by. the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform facilitates and protects this holding of public assemblies. It a provides for permit system under which a permit officer is required upon application to issue a permit subject only to such restrictions on time, place, and manner of conducting the assembly as are appropriate to safeguard the civil liberties of Under the Act the permit officer may not refuse to grant a permit. He must either (1) grant the permit on such terms and conditions as may be appropriate to protect the public health Laws, Continued on page 10 |