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Utah House advances package of bills on caller-ID spoofing, school benefits, human trafficking and more
Summary
The Utah House on Feb. 24, 2015, adopted a series of committee reports and passed multiple bills, including measures that make caller-ID spoofing a state crime, clarify school post-employment health benefit funding, expand human-trafficking statutes for minors and permit limited use of unclaimed tissue for recovery dog training.
The Utah House of Representatives passed a wide-ranging package of bills on Feb. 24, 2015, moving measures on criminal conduct, school pension liabilities, public-health screenings and victim-protection to the Senate or toward enactment.
Representative Lifford, sponsor of the bill targeting caller-ID and text-message spoofing, told colleagues the practice can be dangerous and sometimes leads to “swatting” incidents that put law enforcement and private citizens at risk. “This is a serious crime that’s happening nationwide,” Lifford said, and added the change is intended to fill an enforcement gap where federal authorities may not act on smaller-scale spoofing. The House adopted an amendment proposed by the sponsor and approved final passage of the bill to make misrepresentation of telephone and text identification a state crime (final passage reported in the record).
The chamber also approved legislation addressing school districts’ other post-employment benefits (OPEB). Representative Elison…
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