A bill that would create a task force to improve financial literacy education in Utah schools passed the Senate this morning and will be sent to the House for final consideration. The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Senator Patricia W. Jones of Salt Lake, says that the task force would help to focus existing programs to make…
On Monday Utah Democrats announced legislation aimed at addressing air pollution in the state. The announcement comes after several groups have demanded action from lawmakers and the governor to improve northern Utah’s notoriously poor air quality. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
A legislative committee on Monday approved a bill to reauthorize a Utah task force charged with helping veterans make a smoother transition back into society. The Political Subdivisions Standing Committee heard testimony from the House sponsor of SB 38, Democratic Representative Tim Cosgrove.
(KCPW News) A group of doctors and school children were at Utah’s Capitol on Friday, trying to secure support from lawmakers for a bill that would ban smoking in cars when children under age 15 are present.
(KCPW News) Supporters of a bill to get insurers to cover children with Autism created a colorful display in the capitol rotunda this morning. KCPW’s Roger McDonough tells us what these demonstrators were trying to accomplish.
A resolution calling for greater protection of Utah’s Canyonlands was held over for a year of study on Thursday after Republican lawmakers questioned the intent of the legislation. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) A resolution to get online retailers to collect sales tax from Utah buyers passed unanimously out of committee today. House Joint Resolution 4 asks the U.S. Congress to require sellers like Amazon.com and Ebay to collect and turn over applicable sales tax on items sold to Utah purchasers. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) Legislation that for the first time would have acknowledged the science of human-caused climate change by the government of the State of Utah was debated during a committee meeting on Monday, before being rejected on an 11-4 vote. KCPW’s Roger McDonough reports.
(KCPW News) Cockfighting will join a list of cruelty to animal felony offenses in Utah, if Senate Minority Leader Gene Davis has his way. He’s sponsoring Senate Bill 52, which would make owning, keeping or training fowl for the purposes of cockfighting a third degree felony. “We are the only state in the entire West…
(KCPW News) Republican State Senator Curt Bramble, of Provo, is sponsoring a resolution that supports Israel’s “legal, historical, moral, and God-given right” of self-defense, and that calls the country “neither an attacking force nor an occupier of the lands of others.” Bramble says the resolution, the text of which is nearly identical to a similar…
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