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Committee backs SB 172 substitute clarifying DEQ-local health department cooperative agreements
Summary
Senators and county health directors told the committee SB 172 clarifies the governance, funding flow and cooperative agreements between the Department of Environmental Quality and local health departments and authorizes limited reimbursement for enforcement work in certain districts.
The Utah House Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to pass the first substitute of SB 172, a bill intended to clarify the relationship and funding arrangements between the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and local health departments across the state.
Senator Sandle introduced the measure to the committee; the sponsor's presentation acknowledged that when environmental-quality responsibilities moved away from health departments to DEQ, some code sections were left misaligned. Jordan Mathis, director of the Bear River Health Department and representative…
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