| Show A ah P 0 by uarda mccarty one more week and the twenty third utah state legislature becomes statute recorded history the curtain spelling finis to lawmaking activities for another two years is due to fall next thursday it will unless the often used devie device of turning back the clock is again resorted to in order to ho gain additional hours for legislative action that father time will be halted in his tracks is almost certain if ial lawmakers hope to find 1 arties cities Ai ties to consider even a small fraction of the new laws proposed ln in the multitude of measures in ee reduced rod 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 low cost housing and public owned utilities financing bills by the senate these are believed due for rough sledding in further consideration by branches still open to pass upon them the homestead tax exemption bill passed by the house lowers the ae proposed 2000 in value exemption to tax raising measures aiming to restore revenues lost by the exemption propose to lower exemptions irl in individual income taxes from to for single persons from 1200 to for married persons and from to for dependents the first 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 afie income tax bill also taxes the incomes 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 f fund d iche e senate by a close vote 0 led the controversial bill under which cities and counties of the state with more than population may set up housing authorities and slum clearance and low cost housing projects in cooperation with the federal government any such authority in a first class city must be composed of two members of the utah apartment house owners association a banker a business ness man and a representative of labor no one with an income in excess of a year can rent a project dwelling the senate also passed the agricultural fair trade practices bill already approved by the lower house it exempted livestock and U tc k products from the bills lions As it stands the meas U seeks stabilization of the price of farm products at a minimum of cost of production plus 6 per cent it outlaws certain unfair practices as well another controversial measure removing the tax from oleomargarine made from domestic fats and oils and doubling the levy on that made from imported products was passed by the senate earlier in lne week the senate killed H B 59 a measure aiming to simplify procedure for financing bubli publicly cly owned utilities and eased paEs edS S B chih accordi according ng to its sponsors tends to curb municipal officers from undertaking projects before the cost cos ii is known the house passed a bill banning fireworks and prohibiting the firing of toy pistols etc using explosives plo it also approved a measure prohibiting any person holding a governmental job paying 1000 or more annually from holding office in any political party the latter is expected to encounter stiff opposition in ii the senate the lower house relegated to oblivion two measures which had passed the senat senate senata a after much debate it killed an amendment amend menH to the present anti syndicalism act which would have liberalized the law in respect to labor jabor meetings meeting 3 it also defeated S B 13 under which a person failing to settle a judgment for personal injury or property damage following an automobile accident would be deprived of his drivers license and registration plates until the claim had been adjusted or financial responsibility shown by taking out of liability insurance or posting of a real estate bond the legislators began their next to last weeks deliberations monday wili approximately bills to be const considered dered it is certain that a major portion of these will die in sifting committees these powerful committees now have before them all but about a score of measures only four remaining on the house calendar board and approximately a dozen on the senate calendar in the hands of these committees are such important bills as those pertaining to payment of compensation for occupational disease victims the wages and hours regulation bill bills amending the direct primary law and providing for a nonpartisan non partisan judiciary natural gas patent medicine and occupation tax bills old age assistance bills appropriation bills and many others governor henry H blood has signed 29 measures and vetoed one A total of measures exclusive of resolutions and memorials have been introduced thirteen bills have been passed by both houses and are as yet unsigned by the governor eighteen have been killed many have been passed by one house but upon by the other |
