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Show Your Legislators Report Senate Passes Bill Providing for Use of Studded Snow Tires After the fortieth day of the Utah Legislature, work appears to be movingsmoothly. The subcommittees sub-committees of the appropriations appropria-tions committee are winding up their work and we expect to hear their recommendation in the coming days. The Senate took action on the studded snow-tire issue this week. The Senate passed a bill that would provide for studded tires on vehicles to be legal. Previously the State RoadCom-mission RoadCom-mission had banned their use in Utah. A bill that would make the state income tax standards the same as federal income tax is being considered. The bill exempting ex-empting the food and drug purchases pur-chases from state sales tax is also under consideration. The no-fault insurance issue is being discussed. Presently there are three different bills dealing with this issue and all are in the sifting committee. The sifting committee determines deter-mines when they will be placed upon the calendar and voted upon. up-on. The House of Representatives passed the newsmans shield bill that provides that a newsman need not name his source of information. This was a question ques-tion with arguments on both sides well presented. It will now move to the Senate for their consideration. Also, a bill that would stagger the issuing of license plates to that similar of auto inspection stickers is being considered. Again, we would like to invite all persons interested to attend our weekly meetings at 12:30 in room 327 of the State Cap ital. These sessions provide us an avenue of communication communica-tion with the people. In our last meeting we discussed dis-cussed the problems of school funding and activity transportation transporta-tion with the school superintendents. superin-tendents. They provide a great deal of very useful information to us. Senator Robert F. Clyde Rep. Edison J. Stephens |