Question: What 1978 law was passed by the Utah State University alumni associated with the state with the largest sub-national economy in the world ?

text: List of Utah State University alumni
Government and politics

This list of Utah State University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Utah State University (USU), a public, land-grant, research university located in Logan, Utah. This list does not contain the names of presidents or faculty of the university, unless they happen also to be alumni. Founded in 1888 under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act as the Agricultural College of Utah, USU has grown to more than 28,000 students. Although it is headquartered in Logan, USU operates throughout the state of Utah through five regional campuses and more than 20 distance education sites. On June 13, 1899, graduates of the Agricultural College of Utah met to create the Alumni Association. Today, the Alumni Association is located in the historic David B. Haight Alumni Center, which was dedicated July 11, 1991. Alumni chapters exist in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Washington DC. USU boasts more than 180,000 alumni, who are found in every U.S. state and more than 100 countries.
Name Class year ( s ) Degree ( s ) Notability
Norah al-Faiz 1982 MEd Deputy Minister for Women 's Education in Saudi Arabia ; first woman appointed to ministerial post in Saudi Arabia
Ezra Taft Benson   U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ( 1953-61 )
Dennis Black  B.S . Forest Management M.S . Natural Resources Economics Democratic politician , representing the 21st District in the Iowa Senate since 1995
Laurence J. Burton 1956  Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses ( 1963-1971 )
Kathleen Clark 1972 B.S . Political Science First woman appointed Director of the Bureau of Land Management ( 2002-07 )
George D. Clyde 1921 B.S Governor of Utah
Spencer Cox  B.A Lieutenant Governor of Utah
Elizabeth Dowdeswell 1972 M.S . Behavioral Sciences 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( 2014- ) ; Executive Director , United Nations Environment Programme ( 1993-98 ) ; Canada 's permanent representative to the World Meteorological Organization ; twice elected to its executive council
John Gardner Ford 1975 B.S Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford ; attended USU during his presidency
Steven Ford   Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford ; attended USU during his presidency
Kenny Guinn 1970 Ed.D . Educational Administration Former Governor of Nevada
Paula Hawkins   First woman ever elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate without a family connection ( 1981-87 )
William Marion Jardine 1925 PhD U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ( 1925-1929 ) ; U.S . Ambassador to Egypt
Howard Jarvis   Anti-tax activist in California
Wayne Johnson  History Republican member of both houses , consecutively , of the Wyoming State Legislature , 1993 to 2017
Lorna Kesterson  Journalism Newspaper reporter and editor ; first woman elected Mayor of Henderson , Nevada ( 1985-1993 )
Evan Mecham   Governor of Arizona
Michael W. Mosman 1981 B.S Federal District Judge
Harry Reid 1961 B.S . Political Science U.S . Senator , D-NV ; current U.S. Senate Majority Leader ; youngest Lieutenant Governor in Nevada 's history
Mike Simpson 1972 B.S U.S. House of Representatives , R-ID