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Senate advances inmate contraception bill but tables final action pending fiscal note

Utah Senate · February 11, 2021
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Senate passed House Bill 102, which would require jails to allow inmates to continue medically prescribed contraception, but legislators later voted to table the measure on third for a fiscal note.

On Feb. 11 the Utah Senate considered House Bill 102, a measure requiring jails to provide inmates the option to continue certain medically prescribed contraceptive methods. Senator Escamilla, a sponsor of the bill, said the change responds to intake practices that had removed patients' prescriptions on confinement and noted many…

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