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Show Your Legislators Report Tremendous Number of Bills Introduced Before Legislature Witli the fortieth session of the Utah Legislature at the halfway half-way mark, over five hundred pieces of legislation have been introduced. Numerous resolutions, resolu-tions, also dot the calendar. The appropriations sub-committees are very deep in their tasks. Several of the sub-com- mittees have already finished. Their recommendations will now be voted upon by the entire appropriations committee. A great many bills that have rural interest have been introduced. intro-duced. Senate Bill 127, the Wildlife Wild-life Management Area Act, would provide for a two million dollar a pp r op r i a t i on as the initial payment by the state for 205,000 acres from the East Ranch of the Deseret Livestock Company. The total cost of the area would lie ten million dollars dol-lars over a five year period. A number of bills dealing with the state lands, sponsored spon-sored by Senator Clyde, passed the Senate and will now move to the House for their consideration. considera-tion. A bill dealing with the Great Salt Lake causeway was defeated de-feated in the Senate Thursday. The bill would have opened the causeway. This was a very controversial con-troversial issue and proved to be very interesting. The House acted favorably upon a bill that would outlaw discrimination in payment of wages and salaries on the basis of sex. This legislation came as a result of the sound defeat of the Equal Riglits Amendment. Also a bill was introduced that would change the legal age from 21 to 18. The recent Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion will raise a great deal of questions, and we expect that this issue will arise. In our Thursday meeting, the education appropriations wTere discussed further. The superintendents' su-perintendents' are very concerned, con-cerned, and they are helping us a great deal. We would again like to invite anyone interested to attend. The time is 12:30 in Room 327 of the state capitol. We sincerely hope that if you have any issues that you would like to bring to our attention, you can meet with us at this time. Sen. Robert F. Clyde Rep. Edison Stephens |
