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Senate backs teacher-retention resolution and a campus mental-health declaration
Summary
The Senate passed a House joint resolution supporting teacher retention financing from public-lands net revenue (HJR 8) after recorded votes; the chamber also adopted a concurrent resolution declaring mental-health issues a public-health crisis at Utah higher-education institutions (HCR 16), citing suicide statistics and calling for greater support.
The Utah Senate on Day 38 passed two nonbinding measures addressing education priorities: House Joint Resolution 8, supporting efforts to retain public educators and proposing use of net revenue from state public lands to increase teacher pay, and First Substitute HCR 16, asking the legislature and governor to declare mental-health issues a public-health crisis at Utah—s higher-education institutions.
Senator Milner presented HJR 8 and explained…
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