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Senate funds assistive-technology program to expand access to wheelchairs and hearing aids
Utah State Senate · February 2, 1994
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Summary
Senate approved Senate Bill 20 to appropriate $200,000 to the Utah Assistive Technology Foundation, a sum sponsors said can leverage roughly $2 million in support (bank financing noted); SB20 passed 24–0 and was sent to the House.
Senators voted to place conservative state funding behind assistive-technology services that help people buy power wheelchairs, hearing aids and related equipment.
Senate Bill 20, sponsored on the floor by Senator Scott Howe, would appropriate…
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