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House approves changes to voluntary firearm restriction program to aid patients in care settings
Summary
HB 300 allows a certified health-care worker to witness and submit a patient’s voluntary firearm-restriction form, removes a federal‑database requirement and creates additional duration/removal options; sponsors framed it as suicide‑prevention policy; the House passed it unanimously.
The Utah House on Feb. 6 approved HB 300, a bill updating the state's voluntary firearm‑restriction program intended to help people in a suicidal crisis temporarily remove access to firearms.
Representative Kevin Eliason, sponsor on the floor, said the change addresses a logistical barrier in health‑care settings. Under current language, a person had to physically deliver…
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