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House approves emergency-management bill clarifying coordination and renaming division

Utah House of Representatives · February 17, 2011
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Summary

House Bill 80 passed 68–0 to rename the state's Division of Homeland Security to the Division of Emergency Management, clarify incident coordination from local to federal levels, authorize a State Coordinating Officer (SCO), and allow geographic regions and rulemaking for disaster response.

The Utah House on Feb. 17 passed House Bill 80, a comprehensive emergency-management bill that renames the Division of Homeland Security to the Division of Emergency Management and clarifies the order of coordination during disasters (local to county to state to federal).

Sponsor Representative Ota said the change is intended to avoid public confusion between…

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