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Show Legislator Defeats Curfew ME JQMBUSSELBERG uTLAKE CITY - By a has resoundingly ' vnlCUrfew PrPsal uld ve seen revocation Jl "censes for youths W 8 stopped during the of the morning. STRONG opposition ',wo Davis County y l0rs along with a chorus of their counterparts, House Bill 169 went down to defeat just before the noon break Friday. Fri-day. It would've called for license revocation for those under 18 between midnight-5 a.m. weekdays and after 1 a.m. on weekends. Both Repr. Franklin Knowl-ton, Knowl-ton, R-Layton and Kim Burn-ingham, Burn-ingham, R-Bountiful, raised points against the measure who said, "I can hardly believe be-lieve this when I first saw it. 1 work in Idaho where they can drive under certain restrictions restric-tions at age 14 and they seem to have no trouble. "A LOT OF (legitimate) things go on at night. We can't have a permit for everyone who must work" or receives an assignment from his parents that requires going out late, he added. "We should call this the pumpkin bill-that means everyone has to turn into a pumpkin at noon," he quipped. Repr. Burningham, who had one of his two young sons with him, said he would "trust his son" if he got home after midnight. mid-night. "He doesn't think it's particularly good" either, he said of the 13-year-oId's reaction. reac-tion. "In a student view," reflecting re-flecting his high school teachers' position at Bountiful High School, he said "they really have reservations, feel it's discriminatory." "I DO THINK the way to handle this is through existing laws-those who are drinking, wreckless should be taken off the road anyway. We don't need it. The controversial child restraint res-traint legislation, meanwhile, had passed through the House at the weekend requiring restraints res-traints both in the front and back seats for a trial three-year "Sunset" period, Repr. Knowlton said. WITH THE matter of funding fund-ing and salaries still far from resolution, he said only a $4 million gap remained at the weekend between the legislature's legisla-ture's funding recommendations recommenda-tions and those from other proposals. "We are in with a balance (of the budget)" but said the decision on use of any retirement funds hasn't been resolved. The executive appropriations appropria-tions committee was to have started hitting the issues more intensely Friday afternoon adding that "there's still been no determination on tax in-creases-that's still under consideration." con-sideration." REPR. BURNINGHAM said the House unanimously approved and has sent to the Senate a bill that would give public employees leeway in reporting re-porting perceived fraud or misconduct mis-conduct by reporting to a special spe-cial commission without fear of losing their jobs or suffering other redress. The redevelopment bills sponsored by Repr. Ute Knowlton, R-Kaysville, were due to see action on the floor Monday while Mountain Bell and other telephone interests are continuing their fight against proposed legislation that would limit use of "measured "mea-sured service" or charging a toll for each call under many circumstances. |