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Committee unanimously backs bill to streamline homeless services reporting and clarify coordinator role
House Economic Development and Workforce Services Standing Committee · February 4, 2026
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Summary
HB 308 was presented as a measure to reduce duplicative reporting, clarify the state homeless coordinator’s emergency-response role, and ease contracting burdens; nonprofit providers and local councils testified in support and the committee voted unanimously to send the bill to the full House.
Nick Coleman, interim State Coordinator for the Utah Office of Homeless Services, told the committee HB 308 aims to make the office a more responsive partner to communities and providers by standardizing reporting that is already collected by HUD and reducing duplicative federal…
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