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Show Small Businesses polled by NFIB said that under Utah state law, recovering losses from bad checks is a serious problem: 15 percent found it to be a serious but manageable problem, while 47 percent said the law should be changed because recovering losses is nearly impossible. Eighteen percent per-cent have had no such problem and 20 percent gave no opinion. Because of the costliness of fighting litigation, 26 percent of the respondents to the NFIB poll said they have paid fines they thought unwarranted, and 31 percent said they have complied with directives that were unfounded or frivilous. (In an earlier state ballot, Utah NFIB members indicated that they wanted compensation com-pensation for reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs if they won litigation brought by or against any state or local governmental body.) A statewide poll conducted recently by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) indicates that a large majority of Utah small business people favor legislation that would require a legislative committee com-mittee to approve all future rules made by state agencies. agen-cies. .NFIB is the largest small business organization in the country with more than 530,000 members nationwide, nation-wide, including 5,400 in the State of Utah. Eighty-three percent of the Utah NFIB members responding to the poll said legislation should be passed requiring the Legislative Management Committee to review and approve all future administrative rules and regulations before they can take effect. Nine percent were opposed and eight percent were undecided. In other results of the NFIB poll, the small business people (62 percent) |