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Senate passes substitute of domestic-violence bill requiring a 2-minute lethality screening, creates nonpublic database
Summary
The Utah Senate passed a substitute to Senate Bill 117 on Jan. 30 that would require law enforcement to administer an 11-question lethality assessment in intimate-partner domestic-violence responses and establish a nonpublic database for officers; the measure passed under suspension and will be sent to the House.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 30 approved a second substitute to Senate Bill 117, advancing a measure that mandates an 11-question lethality assessment (LAP) in intimate-partner domestic violence responses and funds a nonpublic database for law enforcement to consult. The substitute passed under suspension of rules and will be transmitted to the House.
Sponsor Senator Wyler described the bill as the product of statewide meetings with police chiefs, judges, defense attorneys and victims’ advocates. He said the measure would "mandate that law enforcement take 2 minutes and ask these 11…
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