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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 in Utah will require biological fathers to pay half of the medical expenses of the mothers’ pregn...

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, 12:00 p.m. Biological fathers will have to pay for half of the out-of-pocket costs of pregnancy and chil...

| 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 to reduce the Wasatch Front’s air pollution. Jeff Mottishaw, of the Governor’s Office of Manage...

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 legislative approval in early February, and Gov. Spencer Cox signed the bill Feb. 15. During debate...

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.