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Speaker Hughes urges coordinated response to homelessness, criticizes federal monument designations and highlights education funding
Summary
In his Jan. 23 opening address, Speaker Gregory H. Hughes called for a collaborative, multi-jurisdictional response to homelessness and behavioral health needs, criticized federal monument designations as overreach, and urged sustainable funding for public education via school trust lands and tax policy review.
In his opening remarks to the newly organized Utah House on Jan. 23, Speaker Gregory H. Hughes outlined policy priorities he expects the chamber to focus on during the 2017 session, emphasizing homelessness and behavioral health, public-lands policy and education funding.
On homelessness and behavioral health, Hughes said the problem "is going to take a collaborative effort" and warned that no single city, county or the state alone can solve it. He described encountering a constituent who, after serving 21 years in federal prison, sought help on returning to the community and who benefited from transitional…
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