Utah State Legislature News Salt Lake Tribune Political Headlines Utah Legislature News via GoogleThe Utah Legislature will be considering a bill aimed to save marriages. The mandate will require couples to attend a “divorce education class” before filing for divorce. The bill will make the course free of charge and available online. The proponents say this will help teach marriage survival skills that might turn some away for [...]
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Utah’s lawmaker’s may be determining the fate of Daylight Savings time this legislative session. What do you think?
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The Utah House Democrats have posted a survey for people to take on the 2012 Legislative Session. Please consider taking the survey!
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Governor Herbert has issued a call for special session on Friday at noon to repeal House Bill 477 which makes electronic communications of elected officials closed to the public. Utah Legislature Watch earlier reported on legislators having a change of heart over the bill and efforts were being made to move towards a special session [...]
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Utah’s lawmakers are either pulling their collective heads out of the sand or are worried about their political careers…..or both. Perhaps one of the most controversial pieces of legislature in the 2011 Utah Session was the passage and signing of H.B. 477, which now makes electronic communications of elected officials private. Hundreds of people from [...]
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Some Utah Legislators want to approve the development of a nuclear plant in Green River. Everyone should be following the unfolding events of Fukushima with regards to the nuclear reactors there as a result of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. This should serve as a “wake up call” to advocates of nuclear energy development. Join [...]
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There is a double standard going on in Utah. Legislators want control of the land to be “given back” to Utah: Utah to Washington: This land is my land! Resolution suggests D.C. cede 35,000 square miles of state “Be it resolved, that the Legislature of the state of Utah calls on the United States, through [...]
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It’s bad enough that Utah Legislators are attempting to destroy the public educational system in the state. Along with bills that want to transfer control from the State Board over to the Legilators or the Governor (depending on which bill), the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee has proposed a total of $257 million dollars to education [...]
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Legislators are on the move this year to take control of Utah’s education system (SJR1 and SJR9). It seems that there are already steps being taken to write curriculum in the form of legislation. Rep. Jack Draxler, R-Logan, is pushing legislation that would require educators to “consider” adding lessons into the curriculum about energy development, [...]
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….all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Are our state legislators really interested in the values of our Founding Fathers? Or are they more interested in property rights…..including owning the “pursuit of happiness” as property? [...]
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