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Senate debates and advances bill shifting 911 and poison control funding priorities
Summary
First Substitute Senate Bill 48 would cap and redirect portions of emergency telephone revenues to rural 911 systems and fund poison control at a specified level; senators debated fiscal impacts and whether the University of Utah would lose funding, and several asked for budget reconciliation before sending to the House.
Senators debated First Substitute Senate Bill 48, an Emergency Telephone Service Law amendment that reallocates some emergency telephone revenues between poison control centers and enhanced 911 systems. Sponsor Senator Harper said the change would provide a fair and sustainable $2.2 million allocation to the Poison Control Center to maintain core missions…
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