democratic controlled the senate and house in 2008.
who controlled the senate and house in 2008?
democratic
prior to the 1962 election which brought republicans to power, utah democrats controlled one u.s. senate seat, both u.s. house districts, the utah senate (14-11), the utah house (36-28) and controlled the majority of county offices (146-117). after the election, the balance of power shifted to utah republicans who controlled the state senate (13-12), state house (33-31), both congressional seats, and one senate seat along with the majority of county offices (133-130). republicans also elected a republican as utah's attorney general. democrat frank moss was elected to the u.s. senate in 1958 and served until 1976, being defeated in the 1976 election by current u.s. senate orrin hatch (as of 2006) thus dividing the utah senate delegation between the democratic and republican parties.
35th utah state legislature
the pennsylvania general assembly website indicates three salvia-related bills in the 2007-2008 regular session. these are senate bill 710 (p.n. 781), house bill 1379 (p.n 1951) and house bill 1379 (p.n. 1726). the different bills were introduced by different bill sponsors, but all proposed adding "salvia divinorum" to pennsylvania's schedule i listing of controlled substances. house bill no. 1547 also listed salvinorin a and divinorin a (salvinorin a is also known as divinorin a). their last actions were recorded as: referred to judiciary, march 29, 2007 for senate bill 710; referred to judiciary, may 29, 2007 house bill 1379; and, referred to judiciary, june 18, 2007 for house bill 1547. house bill 559, referred to judiciary on february 23, 2009, adding salvia divinorum to the state's schedule i controlled substances list, including its isomers. salvinorin a is specifically banned by the act if derived from "salvia divinorum". a compound based on the molecular structure of salvinorin a is banned as an isomer. on september 29, 2010 the pennsylvania house of representatives passed an amended version of h.b. 176, which would place "salvia divinorum" and salvinorin a under schedule i of the pa controlled substance act. hb 176 was referred to the pennsylvania senate judiciary committee on october 12, 2010. it was not voted on before the 2009-2010 session ended. there may be efforts to introduce the bill during the next session. such a ban on "salvia divinorum" might infringe on the religious rights protected by the pennsylvania constitution. on june 16, 2011, the pennsylvania general assembly passed senate bill 1006 which bans several drugs including "salvia divinorum", salvinorin a, and divinorin a, and presented the bill to the governor, who signed it on june 23, 2011.
legal status of salvia divinorum in the united states