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Utah House passes amended bill to curb patient brokering in substance-treatment referrals
Summary
The House amended and passed House Bill 14 to restrict patient brokering in substance-abuse treatment referrals, removing a mandatory prison term and adding procedural safeguards, and sent the measure to the Senate 67–3.
The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 1–2 approved an amended measure aimed at curbing unethical patient brokering practices that steer people into substance-abuse treatment programs.
Representative Hutchings, sponsor of the amendment to House Bill 14, told colleagues the change removes language that would have mandated up to five years’ imprisonment and instead leaves sentencing to judicial discretion. He said the amendment clarifies referrals must involve appropriate mental-health or substance-abuse authorities and removes language that could have swept in legitimate county-level…
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