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Senate clears Medicaid waiver for statewide mental‑health crisis services; related crisis‑line bill tabled for budget work
Summary
The Utah Senate on the morning calendar advanced a Medicaid waiver (House Bill 42) to fund statewide crisis intervention services and acknowledged broader reforms in House Bill 41, which was tabled on third reading for fiscal review. Sponsors said the measures will centralize crisis calls and route them to trained clinicians rather than dispatchers.
Senator Sarah Thatcher urged the Senate to approve a Medicaid waiver to support statewide mental‑health crisis services, saying the package consolidates 24‑hour crisis‑line functions and routes callers to trained clinicians. "Under this bill, any call for help anywhere in the state of Utah will be answered by a live LCSW at the University of Utah's Neuropsychiatric Institute," Thatcher said during her presentation.
The waiver measure, House Bill 42, was presented as the funding component of a broader effort…
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