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Utah Senate passes a slate of bills including emergency‑alert requirement, campus safety and licensing updates
Summary
During a floor session, the Utah Senate approved a broad set of measures—including requirements for county emergency alert capability, campus safety coordination, mental‑health licensure technical fixes and several tax and program changes—and returned them to the House for signature or further consideration.
The Utah Senate approved a series of bills and resolutions in today’s floor session, sending measures back to the House for the Speaker’s signature or further consideration.
Among the measures approved, House Bill 188, the "Emergency Management Act Amendments," requires every Utah county to either be able to send alerts through FEMA’s system or to have a plan to do so through the Division of Emergency Management. "This bill requires counties … to either have the ability to send alerts through FEMA's alerting system or to have a plan to do so through the division of emergency management," Senator Henderson explained on the floor; the measure passed on roll call.
The Senate also concurred with House changes to Senate Bill 68 (mental‑health counselor licensing amendments), which Senator Weiler…
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