Show er C t 04 aft man 0 A r the story of the twenty eighth legislature la is not so much ono one of what was done as it was ot of nihat gasn wasn done value of the session adjourned just three hours af alter the lath day deadline lit at 3 a mi m march 11 consequently lloa lies in the ilia fact that no particular harm was dono done by the lawmakers at A iy ay tile tho sama a me time there were over nl ni on the at firma formative tive side aide that particularly hurt anyone either in all tile the session passed hills bills 48 49 senate and 68 house 4 11 joint resolutions a concur tent memorial a current reso v lations and so several verill resolutions s most notable on oil the negative side was the failure of moves to todeal the ilia clegg vest tabor labor law stubs little ta an and 4 tho the welfare lien law both of which were enacted by the awen ty legislature in regular and special sessi session ollo sheso two moves were right out of the i democratic of lust last fall ind and they moved through tho efio democratic controlled aln house use but died in senate sitting silting laett out of the ilia bill and glyen nane oi thin the motor vehicle venilde registration funds from r which it had drawn its f anul COS tho the state bante Inaus trIai i development department was wag allowed to 0 lie die even a bill to give I 1 q i substituting state ante parka and department I 1 for or the biennium failed to come out ot of sifting after passing tho the senate 4 1 also falling failing to got gal necessary oc essary aup support port for passage package were bills 4 ta to var various barlous lous state de it a sot of senate bills to remove the state Ins insurance department front from the i business regulations and a sot of bills to the state pub lie he department doth were wera passed by the senate bu bul not by the house hous a additional proposals to mil fall was a sot eel of optometry bills 0 to o wt set the profession apart and to provide tt fi code of ethics including clouding the he restriction of adver using the DiOn biennial nial attempt to eliminate itemized disburse disbursements me n ts from published financial state menta of school districts also went its usual way to die in sifting bitting of tile the legislation passed two measures likely to bring the most comment in days to come are tile the record tio alons no bill and a measure to set up a state wide retirement system tor for publio public employees the battor might draw a veto from gov J bracken Rr acken lee iee bee uise ause of the debate against actuarial soundness of the system and because it a joint resolution wab pass ed ad ordering the ilia utah legislative council to study retirement systems of bit the state on oil an actuarial basis I 1 I 1 it t was tile the big appropriations bill that held up tip adjournment until after deadline it finally passed both houses in its original form after a week of bickering between tile the house Demo democrats and the entire senate over whether I 1 or no not t tho the amendments of the upper tipper house in cutting out of the was proper and ic counties 0 it it t I 1 a a made the largest financial gains of alio ho session getting all of the motor vehicle registration money through gli tile the 13 find and C road fund heretofore at least denst has ta been 0 o an taken out tor for the publicity and industrial development corn com 1 or at a now course was aacen by tile tho legislature in the matter of adding county roads to the state road system after a debato debate over the ilia bill to deil piato gnato certain roads to tile the state network it was decided on motion of I 1 son orrice C Ate mcshane Shane n R bea ver to eliminate all but three of tho the now new sections one of the added roads was the tho alto roaald road connect connecting lag agg w with ith southeast ern utah via Ifan kaville another was a three mile stretch in west iron county near deryl daryl to connect the state road with a county road while the third Is lit in wayne county from fremont to loa while the session passed legislation to ratify the colorado upper basin states compact and to provide a means of paying for damage c caused by game by using nn jin increase in fees for a claim fund several agricultural ri bills foiled one of these would have provided refunds for taxes paid in gasoline purchased for non highways use also killed however was a measure to eliminate tho tax on margarine both yellow wand and white after it had been amended to make tile the tax on both the same weber college failed in its koitto to become a four year institution and the utah symphony lost a emergency appropriation ria tion both by veto of the gov nenar after thoy thay had passed both houses among amon accomplishments of the session was tho the passage of a bill to take ta the supreme court justices ind district court judges out of partisan politics this was something the legislature has tried to do since 1944 when a constitutional amendment was adopted nd opted to provide for such a move more constitutional amendments were wera proposed incidentally appearing on the ballot in 1950 will ie be tile the propositions to take tile the state of instruction off the ballot and provide hla his selection by the state boa board rd of education another propped amendment would ralso salaries from per year to per year with 5 per day money while lit in session another bill which was killed cpr the third time in six years was a horse raca race measure which passed tho alia senate again and lost lit in the house houed the bill this time would have permitted parl mutual betting but limited race meets to five lays days and restricted them to two meets in each county per year several attempts were wera made to lift the bill late in the session in the house but each one failed ew of bf tho the governors appointments were turned down by the senn senate te mrs 4 f L gibson salt lake city was finally named on the university of utah board of regents along with five other now new members after the senate had refused to accept either dr janies kerby or jeanette garner ken kell scott was named director of tile the utah department of voter veter n lins us affairs after the name of E H T obrien was refused |