(KCPW News) [Audio after break] A bill that would have started Utah down the path toward importing lower-cost subscription drugs from Canada was voted down in a senate committee on Friday. Provo Republican Rep. Norm Thurston’s House Bill 267 would have prompted an application from Utah to the Department of Health and Human Services. That…
A bill to establish a commission to look at designing a new state flag passed the Utah House of Representatives on Friday. Layton Republican Rep. Steve Handy said his bill would create an eleven-member commission to study the concept of replacing the current Utah state flag. On the House floor on Friday, Handy said his…
(KCPW News) [Audio after break] West Valley Republican Sen. Daniel Thatcher’s SB103 would allow a judge to enhance the penalties someone faces for committing a crime if they target a victim based on any number of personal attributes including their race, religion, sexual orientation, ancestry, gender identity or ethnicity. Prosecutors say Utah’s current hate crimes…
(KCPW News) One way to reduce air pollution in Utah: get more people riding public transit. One way to get more people on trains and busses: make them free to ride. A measure to pay for 17 days of free transit days over the next 3 years cleared the Utah House of Representatives on Monday.…
(KCPW News) [AUDIO AFTER BREAK] If the Great Salt Lake dries up much more than it already has, the consequences could be devastating. To underscore that point, Rep. Timothy Hawkes (R-Centerville) points to other places where terminal lakes – meaning lakes with no natural drainage – have dried up significantly, or altogether. “Around the world…
(KCPW News) The Utah House of Representatives has endorsed a proposal to change the state constitution so that slavery is banned in all instances. House Joint Resolution 8, by Rep. Sandra Hollins (D – Salt Lake), targets a clause in the Utah constitution allowing slavery as a form of criminal punishment. Hollins told her fellow…
(KCPW News) Woods Cross Republican Sen. Todd Weiler’s SB119 meant to extend the ban on large trucks currently in place for the Legacy Parkway in Davis County. The original expiration date for that ban is January 1st of 2020. If the ban expires, it would end fifteen years of Legacy Parkway being a quieter alternative…
(KCPW News) A House committee advanced a proposal to change the way decisions are made about radioactive waste disposal in Utah. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
[Audio follows story] (KCPW News) A senate committee on Friday debated a resolution urging the federal government to end the practice of separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The resolution also called for federal policymakers to act to reunite children who have already been separated. Salt Lake Democratic Sen. Gene Davis said his…
(KCPW News) Last year, with the clock ticking down on the legislative session, Rep. Carol Spackman-Moss (D-Salt Lake) saw her bill to let cyclists yield at stop signs and traffic signals hit its own red light. “I was in the Senate, thirty minutes before midnight, and it was four down [the list], and I’m watching carefully…
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