Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY A bill to lay out the “endgame” for the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah is headed to the full Utah House of Representatives.
Rep. Paul Ray’s HB294 won endorsement from the House Government Operations Committee on a 7-3 vote on Monday, despite concerns from health officials including the state’s own Utah Department of Health.
“What we’re looking towards is the endgame,” Ray, R-Clearfield, said. “How do we get out of the pandemic? How do we declare these things are over?”
Ray is running HB294 to lay out those guidelines for when the state of Utah’s COVID-19 restrictions including mask mandates, business restrictions and social distancing requirements end.
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Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson throws support behind 3 police reform bills
Those bills make up only a fraction of dozens of other police bills filed for 2021 legislative session
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Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY House Speaker Brad Wilson on Wednesday threw his support behind some police reform bills making their way through the Utah Legislature.
But he was also vague on what bills will have more difficulty winning approval from him and the Utah Legislature as a whole, saying the process needs to play out.
“Lawmakers all have different perspectives,” Wilson, a Republican from Kaysville, told reporters. “But we are going to make, I think, a lot of progress this year in this space.”