Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 325 (2022GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Stoddard, A.

Final action

House/ filed 3/4/2022

Outcome

Failed / filed without passage

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• creates a grant program, to be administered by the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, to provide a co-response program where a peace officer and a social worker respond jointly to an incident where mental health may be a factor.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
CO-RESPONSE
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Andrew Stoddard
Senate Sponsor: 
 Daniel W. Thatcher
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill creates a grant program to be administered by the State Commission on
Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ creates a grant program, to be administered by the State Commission on Criminal
and Juvenile Justice, to provide a co-response program where a peace officer and a
social worker respond jointly to an incident where mental health may be a factor.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023:
▸ to the Governor's Office - Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice - CCJJ
Commission as a one-time appropriation:
• from the General Fund, One-time, $8,000,000.
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
ENACTS:
63M-7-218
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
63M-7-218
 is enacted to read:
 63M-7-218.
Mental health co-response grant program.
(1) As used in this section, "co-response model" means a response model that deploys a
peace officer and a social worker in response to an incident involving trespassing, drug use, or
other illegal or unsafe conduct, where:
(a) mental health may be a factor; and
(b) the assistance of a social worker, responding with a peace officer, may result in
better outcomes, including avoiding incarceration or reducing the possibility of future criminal
conduct.
(2) The State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice shall:
(a) establish and administer a grant program, for law enforcement agencies within a
county of the first class or second class, to implement a co-response model; and
(b) establish requirements, including tracking and reporting requirements, for a law
enforcement agency that receives a grant for a co-response model.
Section 2. 
Appropriation.
The following sums of money are appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2022, and ending June 30, 2023. These are additions to amounts previously appropriated for
fiscal year 2023. Under the terms and conditions of Title 63J, Chapter 1, Budgetary Procedures
Act, the Legislature appropriates the following sums of money from the funds or accounts
indicated for the use and support of the government of the state of Utah.
ITEM 1
To Governor's Office -- Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice
From General Fund, One-time
$8,000,000
Schedule of Programs:
CCJJ Commission $8,000,000
The Legislature intends that:
(1) appropriations provided under this section be used for the mental health
co-response grant program described in Section 
63M-7-218
;
(2) no more than $120,000 of the appropriation described in Subsection (1) may be
used for expenses to administer the grant program; and
(3) under Section 
63J-1-603
, appropriations provided under this section not lapse at the
close of fiscal year 2023 and the use of any nonlapsing funds is limited to the purpose
described in Subsections (1) and (2).