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House sets up tax checkoff to fund soft body armor for police K-9s
Summary
House Bill 177 creates a voluntary income-tax checkoff and a restricted account overseen by the Department of Public Safety to allow donations for soft body armor for law-enforcement K-9s; departments may apply for up to $3,000 per year. The House passed the measure 67–2.
The Utah House on Feb. 17 approved House Bill 177 to create a voluntary checkoff on state income-tax forms that directs donations into a restricted account to buy soft body armor for law-enforcement K-9s.
Representative Greenwood, sponsor of the bill, described a January 2010 incident in Midvale in which a patrol K-9 was killed while apprehending a suspect and said the proposal responds to…
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