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Show By Uarda McCarty The fate of Herbert B. Maw's? far-reaching, government reorganization reorgan-ization plan rests with the Utah state senate following the surprising sur-prising and practically unanimous passage last Friday by the house of representatives of H. B. 82, the single measure encompassing all of the chief executive's proposals pro-posals for executive, departmental, departmen-tal, and commission revamping. ,It now remains for the 23 state senators to decide in what form they will consider the governor's proposals as the one all-inclusive H. B. 82 or in the apparently favored assortment of 39 bills recently re-cently introduced in the upper house to individually co ;er the varied phases of the plan. Legislative Leg-islative experts predict that the passed house bill will be discarded discard-ed and reorganization enacted in the series of attorney-analyzed measurers. At the close of the 41st session day Saturday the 39 reorganization reorgani-zation bills and at least 10 others allied with reorganization were under consideration, with legal assistance, by the senate committee commit-tee on revision and enrollment. It was expected that some of the measures, passed upon as constitutionally consti-tutionally drawn, would reach the senate calendar this -week. Inthe meantime 382 of the 510 bills and resolutions introduced up to last Friday night remained unacted upon by either senate or house. Of the 510 total, 52 had been passed by both houses. Of these, Governor Maw had signed 11 to place them on the statute bocks. Twenty-one bills and resolutions re-solutions had h"-- t.-nir.'1 bv two legislative branches. Nine had been withdrawn. The house had '27 senate-passed measures to act upon and the senate 19 house-passed house-passed measures. Approximately 100 of the 382 bills and resolutions as yet unacted un-acted upon had to do with taxation taxa-tion and court or legal procedure divided about 50 each. Another 50 had to do with state government reorganization. Fourteen concerned concern-ed education, 15 traffic or highways, high-ways, 13 were of interest labor, and 11 to water users. Thirteen carry appropriations. Ten relate to elections, 10 to defense, five to housing, five to fish and game, six to welfare, six to liquor sales, and eight to health. A dozen or so have to do with agriculture and livestock. Others relate to civ-1 civ-1 service, pensions, -and mar. Several are of regulatory nature, while nearly ten seek establishment establish-ment of commissions or boards. The senate last week passed the house-approved bill authorizing author-izing counties to levy a tax for participation in weed eradication programs, the house bill strength ening supervision of "benevolent and mutual insurance companies, and another house hill making it optional rather than mandatory to maintain a city court in municipalities mun-icipalities of more than 5,000 population. pop-ulation. The house passed senate approved bills bringing federal employes residing in Utah under the state income law, and authorizing auth-orizing the fish and game department depart-ment to use certain state-owned lands adjacent to Great Salt Lake for recreational activities. In addition to passing H. B. 82, the lower house approved H. B. 83, liberalyizing the old age assistance as-sistance act. |