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Show HinJer me senate bills, one senate joint memorial mem-orial to Congress and five house bills. Up to Saturday night it had passed 47 senate bills and the one I r .t M. including six also passed by By TJarda McCarty Setting up of a practically new system of state government by the current legislative session seems assured as-sured with the unanimous passage last week by the senate of five measures meas-ures embodying various phases of Governor Herbert B. Maw's comprehensive compre-hensive plan for governmental reorganization. re-organization. Apparently relegating to the discard dis-card H. B. 82, the all-inclusive reorganization re-organization bill passed by the lower low-er house, in favor of approximately the house. Measures passed by both I branches totaled 23 bills, six senate joint resolutions, one senate joint memorial, and five house joint resolutions. reso-lutions. Governor Maw has approved approv-ed 24 measures and vetoed one. All told, 535 measures have been introduced intro-duced during the session. Nine senate sen-ate bills, three senate joint resolu- tions, and eight house bills have been killed, and 10 withdrawn. Final action ac-tion is yet to be taken on 215 senate bills, two senate joint resolutions, two senate concurrent resolutions, 133 house bills, 11 house joint resolutions, resolu-tions, and one house concurrent memorial. Bills receiving final approval last week include H. B. 8, prohibiting tobacco vending machines in places where they are accessible to minors, and S. B. 82, making trespass on private lands for hunting, trapping or camping a misdemeanor. '5 measures treating each phase of eorganization separately, the senate ast week passed five of them. They jstablish a publicity and industrial development department, set up a 3-member public welfare commission, commis-sion, and transfer control of the Utah State Training, Utah State Hospital and juvenile court system to the public welfare department. All were passed without a dissenting dissent-ing vote. Legislators and legislative experts predict that the remainder of the senate reorganization bills will be acted upon and with house approval go to the governor for his action before the final session bell rings on March 13. That they will meet with but little opposition except as to minor details and with few attempts at-tempts at important amendments is deemed likely in view of the unanimous un-animous votes cast on those already passed. Then probably in June will come a special legislative session at S. B. 101 by Senator Francis S. Lundell of Benjamin passed the senate last week. It amends the pheasant hunting. law to enable hunters to buy season permits to hunt on posted private property on payment of a $1 fee instead of paying pay-ing at the rate of 50 cents per bird as at present. Senator Lundell voted no on o. B. 44, levying a graduated tax on Miain' store companies operating 10 which the lawmakers win pa:b u.. the governor's appointments to the newly created departments and commissions, com-missions, and make whatever revisions revis-ions are deemed necessary to strengthen the reorganization enactments enact-ments including the many transfers trans-fers of powers and duties from existing ex-isting departments and commissions to the new agencies. With reorganization as a whole approved, the lower house last week devoted its attention to other pend- or more stores in Utah. Senator Arthur O. Ellett of Spanish Fork voted yes on this measure. The senate passed H. B. 84 by Representative Mrs. Maude B. Jacob Ja-cob of Provo and it is now before I Governor Maw for final disposition. It permits counties without a county coun-ty hospital to contribute to the support sup-port of non-profit hospitals which provide free service to indigents. H B. 91 by Representative Burton H Adams of Pleasant Grove passed the lower house. It provides tnut the holding of supplemental water supplies by irrigation companies or water users' associations beyond five . years for anticipated drought periods will not be cause for loss of water ' rights. ing measures. Representatives passed pass-ed 17 house bills and three senate bills One senate joint resolution was killed. The week's activities raise the total of bills passed by the house to 51 including 17 also passeu by the senate. The senate last week passed it |
