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The dreaded inversion season has settled over Utah’s Wasatch Front, prompting state air pollution regulators to issue a prohibition on wood-burning devices and request that motorists limit trips on the roads. A segment of state employees will also be able to work from home Thursday to help limit tailpipe emissions.

A new flag commemorating Utah’s 125th anniversary was raised above the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. The commemorative flag was approved in the last days of the 2021 Legislature as a part of SB48. The bill also created a task force that will review the current flag code and review if the banner should be updated. It will fly below the official state flag through the end of the year. In 2018, businessman and onetime GOP gubernatorial candidate Richard Martin started Organization for a ...

Utah Law Requires Fathers to Pay Half of Mothers’ Pregnancy Costs A new Utah law will require fathers to pay for half of a woman’s pregnancy costs. The legislation, H.B. 113, signed into law by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) in March, amends the Utah Child Support Act to include the medical costs associated with pregnancy. The law will take effect May 5. The text states the law “requires a biological father to pay 50% of a mother’s: insurance premiums while she is pregnant; and pregnancy-rel...

04-07-2021 A new law in Utah aims to increase the responsibility for biological fathers by requiring them to pay half of the out-of-pocket expenses related to pregnancy and childbirth. Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed H.B. 113 into law last month, revising the Utah Child Support Act and in an attempt to bring fairness to the funding of pregnancies.  The bills sponsor, state Rep. Brady Brammer (R) and state Sen. Daniel McCay (R) said the measure will ensure that pregnancy expenses are sha...

Fathers Must Go Half on the Pregnancy Bills in the State of Utah Credit: Ola Pemberton on Flickr In Utah, biological fathers are required to pay half the cost of a mother’s medical expenses arising from the pregnancy. The new bill, House Bill 113, which Gov. Spencer J. Cox signed on March 16, amends Utah’s Child Support Act in favor of making all fathers—with confirmed paternity—pay half the biological mother’s insurance premiums during the pregnancy. He must also pay all other medic...

Utah Will Require Fathers to Help With Pregnancy Bills The law, set to take effect in May, requires any father whose paternity has been confirmed to pay half of a mother’s insurance premiums while she is pregnant, and any related medical costs. Gov. Spencer J. Cox of Utah amended the state’s Child Support Act, approving a measure that requires biological fathers to pay half of the mothers’ pregnancy costs.Credit...Pool photo by Jeffrey D. Allred April 6, 2021Updated 6:34 p.m. ET A new law...

Utah governor signs bill requiring biological fathers to share the cost of pregnancy Under the new law, fathers won’t have to pay for abortions they didn’t consent to. (Teresa Crawford | AP file photo) In this 2018 photo, a doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago. Under a Utah bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Spencer Cox, biological fathers will have to pay for half of the out-of-pocket costs of pregnancy and childbirth.   | March 17, 2021, 12:0...

| Updated: 7:50 p.m. Thousands of Utah state employees have been working from home for months during the pandemic and, under a bill that cleared the Legislature without a single dissenting vote, more will be asked to do so on bad air days. SB15, sponsored by Sen. Daniel McCay, R-Riverton, would notify eligible “surge” state employees ahead of mandatory action days, identified by The Division of Air Quality — when an air quality dip is predicted — to stay off the roads and work remotely...

Deseret News Share this story Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Guns once again were a contentious issue on Capitol Hill during the Legislature’s 45-day session that ended March 5, and after several tries through the years, lawmakers succeeded in ending the permit requirement for carrying a concealed weapon in Utah. HB60 lets any Utah resident who is 21 years or older and can legally possess a firearm to carry their weapon concealed without needing a permit. It received final...

Utah lawmakers argued over the value of possibly redesigning the state flag and what downsides and upsides would come from creating a task force that would look into the issue.