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Senate Backs Suicide-Prevention Task Force But Tables Bill on Third Reading over Fiscal Note
Summary
The Senate advanced HB252 — which would create a statewide suicide-prevention task force — to third reading but then tabled the bill on third because of a fiscal note (about $30,000); sponsors said the first substitute addressed earlier opposition and created a task force to study statewide coordination.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 22 advanced House Bill 252, the Utah Suicide Prevention Act, and then took procedural action to table it on third reading because of a fiscal note.
Senator Niederhauser described the first substitute for HB252 as a compromise designed to create a task force that studies contributing factors to suicide and evaluates whether a statewide prevention plan…
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