Show ld wider e al H to one more week and the twenty third hird utah state legislature be omes comes statute recorded history the curtain spelling finis to lawmaking aw making activities for another two wo years is due to fall next thursday it will unless the often used device of turning back the clock is again resorted to in in order to gain additional hours for legislative action that father time win will be halted in his tracks is almost certain if the lawmakers hope to find fin J opportunities port unities to consider even a small fraction of the new laws proposed in the multitude 01 ol measures introduced such action will bring the sessions close to a week from saturday in the opinion of legislative experts last weeks highlighted activities centered largely in the passage by either the senate or lower house of several controversial bills a modified homestead tax exemption and income tax raising acts by the house and lo 10 low w co cost s t housing and public owned owne d utilities e s financing bills by the senate se nate these are believed due for rough sledding in further consideration by branches still to pass upon them homestead exemption the homestead exemption bill passed by the house lowers the proposed 2000 in value exempt exemption ion to tax raising measures aiming to restore revenues lost by the exemption propose to lower exemptions empt ions in individual income taxes from to for single persons f from rom 1200 to 1 tor 0 r married persons and from 30 0 to t 2 00 for dependents the first I 1 per cent of the tax on the first net taxable income is placed at instead of 1000 as at present rates are carried up to a maximum of 6 per cent instead of the current 5 per cent the income tax bill also taxes the income of non residents exempting stocks bonds and notes against corporations outside the state but which might be held in trust in utah passage of the tax measure was followed by defeat of a bill proposing to divert a year from liquor sales profits to the state high school fund the senate by a close vote passed the controversial bill under which cities and counties of the s state ate with more than population may set up housing authorities and undertake slum clearance and low cost housing projects in cooperation with the federal government ern ment any such authority in a first class city must be compose of two members of the utah apartment house owners association a banker a business man and a representative of labor no one with an income in excess of a year can rent a project dwelling stabilization ot of farm prices the senate also passed the agricultural fair trade practices bill already approved by the lower house it exempted livestock and livestock products from the bills provisions As it stands the measure seeks stabilization of the price of farm products at a minim minimum of cost of production plus 6 per ceci it outlaws certain unfair i as well another controversial mea removing the tax from ole margarine made from fats and oils and doubling the lei lc on that made from imported p BI ducts was passed by the sena lenal earlier in the week the sena killed H B no 59 a mease me aiming to simplify procedure fa 1 financing publicly owned 0 W ned and passed S B N no 07 I 1 according to its sponsors sors tends e curb municipal officers from i a der taking projects before the 0 is s known the house passed a bill bann ban fireworks and prohibiting the I 1 ing of toy pistols etc using plosives plo it also approved a me ure prohibiting any person son hol hold a governmental job paying pa ying 51 1 cr more annually from holding 0 lice in any political party latier is expected to stiff opposition in the senate house kills hills senate bills the lower house relegated oblivion two measures which h a passed the senate after much bate it killed an amendment the present anti syndicalism an would have liberalized r law in in respect to labor meet n it also delegated derea delea ted S B 13 un ui which wh ich a person failing to settle sett judgment for pers personal ai jmj injury property damah damage f following inga automobile autom oDile accident aou would ba dived dived of his delv rs license registration legi plates until the cial c had been adjusted or financial s shown by taking 0 ol 01 ol 01 liability insurance or pos kostu tin g a real estate bond still measures the legislators vegan pegan their n to last weeks deliberation mo alon with 1 eli approximately bills s h P to be considered it is certain th a major portion of these ese will wil I 1 in sifting committees these p erful committees now have bea b them all but about a score measures only four remaining nir the house calendar board am and a fil proximately a dozen on the tena si 4 calendar in the hands of these the e con 31 tees are such im important t bill con s those pertaining to payment q compensation for occupational occupation sease victims the wages and 1 ho regulation bill bills bill is a m direct primary law la w an and d apro brov vi i for a nonpartisan judiciary d I 1 ic n a al gas patent medicine and i pation tax bills old age assistant as assist sistan bills appropriation bills and i man others governor henry H blood ca signed 29 measures and ve one A total of measures elusive of resolutions ard ana mo mortals rials have been 4 thirteen bills have been pass passed both houses and as yet ansi uns by the governor eighteen ha been killed many have been P ed by one house but on by the other |