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Committee backs bill to add metal theft to joint strike force duties and streamline reporting
Summary
Lawmakers favorably recommended HB 271 to add metal theft (including catalytic converters) to the multi‑agency joint strike force’s responsibilities and to strike an underused catalytic‑converter reporting requirement; AG investigators and scrap‑metal recyclers said a statewide communications system already exists.
SALT LAKE CITY — The committee moved House Bill 271 forward after lawmakers heard from law‑enforcement investigators and scrap metal recyclers about statewide efforts to curb catalytic‑converter and other metal theft.
Representative Kristofferson said the bill adds metal theft to the joint strike force’s duties and removes a specific reporting requirement…
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