mental health

2022 Bills

HB 167: Psychotherapy Mental Health Task Force

This bill creates a task force to study the potential use of psychotherapy drugs for mental health.

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2021 Bills

SB 28: Increasing Access to Mental Health Care Providers

This bill expands the scope of practice for physician assistants who specialize in mental health, providing greater and more affordable access to mental health care for Utahns.

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2021 Bills

HB 116: Excused Absence Without a Doctor’s Note

This bill allows parents to excuse their children from government schools due to an illness without requiring a doctor's note.

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2021 Bills

HB 81: Mental Health as an Excused School Absence

This bill allows parents to excuse their children from government schools for issues pertaining to mental health.

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Op-Eds

Davis County program helps police and the mentally ill

Davis county has implemented a new approach toward helping those with mental health and drug addiction problems.

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2018 Bills

Parents Can Excuse a Child from School for Mental Illness

A new law clarifies that parents can excuse their child from government schools not only for physical illnesses, but mental ones also.

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