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Senate advances bill to tighten oversight of youth residential treatment centers
Summary
S.B. 127 passed third reading after floor debate. The bill adopts national best practices on restraints, increases site visits and reporting, requires weekly unmonitored family calls, and mandates suicide-prevention and nondiscrimination programs in youth residential treatment centers, sponsors said, citing survivor testimony and investigative reporting.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 11 advanced first substitute S.B. 127, a human services bill that seeks to strengthen oversight and safeguards for youth residential treatment and congregate-care facilities.
Senator McHale, who sponsored the bill, told the Senate it addresses six core areas including physical and chemical restraint standards, increased announced and unannounced site visits, required suicide-prevention programming, non‑discrimination policies, prompt reporting of restraint and seclusion…
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