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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 New Utah Flag. In 2019, he told the Deseret News the current state flag, which has remained essentia...
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-related medical costs, including the hospital birth of the child, that are not paid by another person....
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 bill's sponsor, state Rep. Brady Brammer (R) and state Sen. Daniel McCay (R) said the measure will ensure that pregnancy expenses are shared by both parties involved, according to The Daily Wire. McCay pointed out that the measure provi...
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 medical expenses. According to The New York Times, maternal healthcare in the Beehive State has been cri...