5 Things Utah: Q&A w/Rep. Lesser, Topical Agenda, Student mental health DJ Wilson | Feb 19, 2021
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We are now less than two months out from our 2021 Utah State of Reform Health Policy Conference and we’re getting excited about the names we’re curating for you as speakers at this year’s event. We will release the more than 60 speakers curated for you in another few weeks.
Until then, you can also review our agenda for our first federal conference held just the week before on April 7-8. We’ll have a number of names from inside the beltway that you’ll recognize, including some prominent Utahns on the agenda. So, we’d love to have you with us at one or even both if you’re a full health policy geek like me!
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Soren Simonsen, executive director of the Jordan River Commission, takes down information as to where he is seeing homeless camps during the 2021 Point-in-Time count, a nationwide annual event to survey people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. A Utah House committee on Thursday OK’d a sweeping bill to restructure a homeless governance system in the state.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY A Utah House panel offered early support to a bill that would create a central leader on homelessness and make other sweeping changes after a study late last year identified several issues with the state’s homeless services system.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to allow conservation groups to participate in a legal battle over roads on public land in Utah. This story and more in Monday evening s news brief.
Monday evening, January 25, 2021
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Three Utah Lawmakers Test Positive For COVID-19
At least three Utah legislators have COVID-19. State senate officials confirmed Sen. Don Ipson, R-St. George and Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, both tested positive for the disease in the last few days. And a statement on Rep. Jon Hawkins’, R-Pleasant Grove, Facebook page said he is currently hospitalized with COVID-19. He will not participate in the 2021 session at all. Monday marked the first day the general public was allowed in-person at the capitol. There is regular COVID-19 testing of interns, staff and lawmakers at the capitol. But the Legislature said it will not be releasing any information on who or how many people test positive.
Another emergency homeless shelter opened in Salt Lake County this week. The new winter overflow facility is on the west side of Salt Lake City and can house 120 people.