Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleIf Obama’s stimulus bill passes, Utah could get $2 billion, which would help the financial status immensely. In an article posted in the Salt Lake Tribune: Utah would receive $215 million to plug shortfalls in Medicaid, which provides health care for the state’s poorest residents. The state’s 40 school districts could grab anywhere from $31,500 [...]
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Senate Bill 27 – Election Law Change calls for these highlighted changes to be made: This bill: 14 . clarifies the requirements to be legally entitled to vote when voting in a precinct 15 outside of one’s own; 16 . changes the date for the Western States Presidential Primary election canvass; 17 . changes numerous provisions that require [...]
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People may be wondering how one can actually witness the events and activities of the Utah Legislature. The Salt Lake Tribune has a piece on how you can witness the Utah Legislative Session activities, from being there in person, to listening to the discussion remotely. You can influence an actor’s behavior by visiting during the [...]
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There are two bills now up at the legislature with the goal of chipping away at Roe v. Wade: H.B. 90 which attempts to criminalize doctors who perform abortions, and H.B. 222 which will require doctors to tell them that the fetus may experience pain. A third, H.B. 114, allows the state to legally defend [...]
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They’ve teamed up and vowed to defeat the full set of bills in the Common Ground Intiatives–bills designed to provide same sex partners with basic legal rights, not marriage, but property and other rights. Indeed, Sen. Chris Buttars committee today in a 4 to 2 vote prevented the first of the four bills from even [...]
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Eric Ethington asked me to post this from his blog: Today the Utah Senate Judiciary Interim Committee denied the first of the Common Ground Initiative bills, proposing wrongful death benefits for same-sex couples 4 to 2. The committee, led by such high-public names like Michael Waddoups and Chris Buttars heard extensive argument about the (very [...]
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The Salt Lake Tribune has published a poll where Most Utahns back making health coverage mandatory Read the entire article.
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Published in the Salt Lake Tribune The first of a series of gay-rights bills aimed at the 2009 Legislature died in the Senate judiciary committee today Sen. Scott McCoy’s SB 32 would have amended state law so that financial dependents – besides spouses, parents and children – could sue if a breadwinner suffers a wrongful [...]
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Community Solutions has footage of today’s rally in the Governor’s office, on the second day of the 2009 Utah Legislature. Today about 50 people crammed into the reception area of the Governor’s Office to deliver a letter asking the Governor to veto any bill that included cuts to Medicaid passed before Congress can act on [...]
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Why we will be protesting at the State Capitol Building tomorrow afternoon posted by Bill Tibbitts at One Utah I know a person who claims she was involved with Act Up in another state during the 1980s and so she values taking direct action to confront complacent and powerful people but, she says, that kind [...]
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