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Show Utah Legislature Completes Work of Hectic 1935 Session Lawmakers of This District Aid In Adding Many New Laws To Tomes Taxation represented in 15 i measures, resulting in major de-1 gree to material increases in taxes. Social welfare embodied in 15 measures, a majority of which 5et up facilities for participation by Utah in national social welfare programs. Liquor control represented in a straight state store plan for liquor control, with no private sales. The twenty-first Utah legislature legisla-ture adjourned Monday with these results paramount in connection with the three major issues that have held the attention of lawmakers law-makers to a large extent during the past two months. Adjournment Adjourn-ment came only after hectic hours of embittered battling between house and senate. Education, water projects, banking bank-ing and financial matters, public utilities, traffic and highways, de- partments and institutions of the state, and court procedure were I affected by 85 varied measures en-i en-i acted into law. Nine bills had to I do with agriculture farm relief. Another six pertained to depait-I depait-I ment and institutional affairs, and j six to appropriations for their maintenance and other state expenditures. ex-penditures. Five had to do with the state land board and two to regulation of professions. Twenty-nine Twenty-nine were of a miscellaneous nature. na-ture. All told 168 bills, resolutions and memorials were pa-sed by both legislative houses. Thirty-nine Thirty-nine were killed in both branches and in conference committees. I Forty were withdrawn and 17 J tabled. A total of 330 measures i were left in sifting committees , not acted upon. The grand total af mea-ures. introduced was !K1. ; New laws raising taxes will include in-clude individual and corporation income taxes; additional city , levies, insur.'inee pr emium, and in-i heritance taxes. Those affording some small mea-uie of relief from j tax burdens were largely in the I nature of time extensions for redemptions. re-demptions. Included in the relief re-lief category comes the re-olution j proposing that the state ron-titu-I tion be changed to permit exemption exemp-tion from taxation of homc.-teads I up to 52,000 in value. This cannot J |
