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House sponsor presents Mobile Crisis Outreach Team Act, seeks certification and statewide expansion
Summary
Representative Eliason presented the Utah Mobile Crisis Outreach Team Act on the House floor, describing MCOTs as clinician-and-peer teams that respond to mental-health crises and asking the Crisis Line Commission to oversee certification; the bill emerged from the Crisis Line Commission and was reported out of committee with a favorable 11-0-1 vote.
Representative Eliason introduced the Utah Mobile Crisis Outreach Team Act on the House floor, describing Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOTs) as teams that dispatch a licensed clinical social worker and a peer mentor with lived experience to a person's residence in crisis.
Eliason said MCOTs operate without uniforms or marked cars in pilot…
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