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Today is day 13 of the Utah legislative session. In the Senate today:

• The third reading calendar has a couple new items of business:

1. SB 143: Income Tax – Pass-through Entities
2. SB 42: Limitation on Action to Recover Deficiency Following Short Sale 

• Also, the Senate Workforce Services and Economic Development Standing Committee meeting today has been cancelled.
• Be involved! Join the live press conference, streaming live via Facebook, right after morning floor time. Questions can be texted to 801-647-8944. We will announce when we start, as always, viaTwitter and Facebook.

Utah Senate in the Media: February 07, 2012

Has local control of billboards crossed the line?  SB136 Senator Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy thinks so. “I don’t want to take over control of anything,” Niederhauser said “But when they go outside the bounds of some fundamentals that we believe in, then yes, the state should step in and take control”.  Read the full story at Daily Herald:http://bit.ly/ABD7DP view the text of the bill here: http://1.usa.gov/A1cy9c

Important discussions are taking place about the future of Hill Air Force Base.  ”This is not the time to panic but the time to prepare,” Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton.  Read the full story at the Standard-Examiner:http://bit.ly/z40YhH and at the Senate Site:http://bit.ly/wrjzwG      

SB48 raised questions in committee about the need of an “official vision” for public education written into state law.  Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, persuaded the committee to amend SB48 to include language that the Legislature “recognizes that parents are a child’s first teachers and are responsible for the education of their children.”  Read the full story in the Deseret News:http://bit.ly/ybUOmg  read the text of the bill and its amendments: http://1.usa.gov/wj6YAw