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Show Shepherd to run. Karen won, as did two other women that increasing the number of women in the Utah Senate by 300%. Karen year Frances' third term, she served on the Rules Committee, Executive Appropriations Committee, Health and Social Services, Revenue and Taxation, and the Judicial Conduct Commission. During served on She committees and task forces many including the Information Practices Task Force, the Governor's Health Policy Task Force, and the Long.Term Care Task Force. of Senator Farleys accomplishments include: formation of the Utah Women's Political Caucus being able to provide encouragement to women in Utah by letting them know that a non-Mormon, progressive, woman Democrat could win election in conservative Utah, early opposition to the MX project in Utah and Nevada, successful sponsorship of legislation to prohibit mandatory retirement on the hasis of age, leadership in referendum drive to put removal of the sales tax on food on the ballot in 1980, successful sponsorship of the AIDS education bill, funding for monitoring air quality, .successful sponsorship of the fair housing statute, .successful sponsorship of legislation allowing the Public Service commission to grant interim rate decreases as well as increases, successful sponsorship of bill recodifying the Utah Labor Code, 1989 which led to tying the Utah minimum wage to the federal minimum wage, .successful sponsorship of dam safety bill, 1990, near passage of Life without parole bill. Some · .. .. .. · .. .. · · .. · .. . . Senator Salt Farley and her City. husband Gene are both retired and live in Lake 175 |
