Utah Health Promotion Legislation

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Utah Health Promotion Legislation

• Elizabeth Craig, BS CHES

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Health Promotion and Policy

• A look back at some significant Health Promotion
  Bills from the Utah Legislature
• http//le.utah.gov/

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Suicide Prevention Plan

• 2006
• H.B. 186-Utah's Division of Substance Abuse and
  Mental Health would develop a statewide suicide
  prevention plan under a bill that passed the
  House
• House Bill 186 would compile data from various
  state agencies, including statistics and
  information culled by the state's medical
  examiner, about suicide deaths and craft a plan
  to help head off the problem.
• Utah has the highest suicide rate in the nation
  for young men between 14 and 21
• Private or nonprofit social service groups in the
  community are working on prevention programs and
  the University of Utah has done some research,
  but the state should use its resources to help in
  the effort.

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Tobacco Prevention

• 2007 amendment Class B private clubs are
  licensed on or before May 15, 2006 or on or
  before May 15, 2006 and after May 15, 2006
  undergo a change in ownership and do not permit
  an individual under the age of 21 in the class B
  private club, unless the individual is active
  military are required to become smoke-free by
  January 1, 2009

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Tobacco Prevention

• 2007 amendment Taverns that are licensed on or
  before May 15, 2006 or licensed on or before May
  15, 2006 and after May 15, 2006 undergo change in
  ownership are required to be smoke-free by
  January 1, 2009

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Tobacco Prevention

• 2007 amendment Class D private clubs that are
  licensed on or before May 15, 2006 or licensed
  on or before May 15, 2006 and after May 15, 2006
  undergo change in ownership are required to be
  smoke-free by January 1, 2009

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Tobacco Prevention

• These new amendments bring Utah back up to the
  top 10 leading states in comprehensive
  initiatives for tobacco prevention.

• Joins us with the Global Issue for Second Hand
  Smoke Laws
• Ireland
• England
• France
• Switzerland
• Sweden

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Booster Seat

• 2008
• Children between the ages of five and eight, and
  under 57 inches tall, will have to sit on an
  approved booster seat when buckled up in a vehicle

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Booster Seat

• Rep. Tim Cosgrove cited numerous studies that
  show that five-to-eight-year- olds often are so
  small that current seat belts don't fit them
  properly. They can be choked when a harness belt
  goes over their neck, or suffer severe injuries
  if they put the harness belt over their heads,
  and only wear a lap belt.
• 2,100 were injured in Utah in automobile
  accidents in 2008

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2008 General Session
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Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• H.B. 15 requires the Department of Health and
  local health departments to provide information
  to the public and health care professionals about
  the health consequences of untreated sexually
  transmitted diseases medical options for
  treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and
  services and medical benefits that are available
  for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

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Cancer Screening and Mortality

• H.B. 17 expands the Department of Health's
  breast cancer mortality reduction program to
  include other cancers identifies the program as
  the "Cancer Screening and Mortality Reduction
  Program" and deletes a reference to a mammogram
  quality assurance advisory committee which 21 no
  longer exists.

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Pregnancy Education

• H.B. 38 directs the Department of Health, to
  conduct a public education and outreach program
  to inform pregnant women, and women who may
  become pregnant, of the risk of using substances
  that are harmful during pregnancy, of treatment
  available to avoid or stop the use or abuse of
  these substances, and legal protections
  pertaining to this treatment

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Seat Belt Safety

• H.B. 87 repeals the provision that makes a
  safety belt violation for a person 19 years of
  age 13 or older enforceable only as a secondary
  action when the person is detained for another
  offense.

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Physical Activity

• H.B. 104 defines an urban trail as a trail
  located in a county of the first or second class
• establishes a one-time appropriation of 250,000
  to the Department of Natural Resources for grants
  to plan and develop urban trails
• establishes a one-time appropriation of 250,000
  to the Department of Natural Resources for the
  Bonneville Shoreline Trail Program.

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Substance Abuse

• H.B. 316 requires a local substance abuse
  authority to ensure that all substance abuse
  treatment programs that receive public funds
  provide priority for admission to a pregnant
  woman or a pregnant minor
• requires a local substance abuse authority to
  provide a comprehensive referral for interim
  services to a pregnant woman or pregnant minor
  that cannot be admitted for substance abuse
  treatment within 24 hours of the request for
  admission
• provides that, if a substance abuse treatment
  program is not able to accept and admit a
  pregnant woman or pregnant minor within 48 hours
  of the time that request for admission is made,
  the local substance abuse authority shall contact
  the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health, which shall assist in providing services
  to the pregnant woman or pregnant minor

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Health Insurance

• H.B. 326 requires the Department of Health to
  keep enrollment in the Children's Health
  Insurance Program open so that an eligible child
  who applies for coverage under the Children's
  Health Insurance Program can enroll in the
  program
• designates the appropriations to the Utah
  Children's Health Insurance Program as
  non-lapsing appropriations.

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Tobacco Prevention

• H.B. 355 reduces the state sales and use tax
  rate from 4.65 to 4.59
• increases the cigarette tax by an amount
  equivalent to 50 cents per pack of 20 cigarettes
  (from 69.5 cents to 1.19½ per pack for
  cigarettes weighing not more than three pounds
  per thousand, and from 81.5 cents to 1.31½ per
  pack for 22 cigarettes weighing more than three
  pounds per thousand)
• specifies that the lesser of 3,100,000 or the
  total amount of the tax increase shall be
  deposited annually in the Cigarette Tax
  Restricted Account and, as funds are available,
  appropriated to the Department of Health for
  cancer screening and the Gold Medal Schools
  Program updates the formula for appropriating
  revenue remaining in the Cigarette Tax Restricted
  Account at the end of the fiscal year

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Upcoming For 2009

• Higher tax on cigarettes
• Funding for LHD

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Resources

• http//www.UtahSenate.org
• http//www.SenateSite.com
• http//www.UtahSenateDemocrats.or
• http//twitter.com/utahsenate

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Facebook

• Utah State Senate
• Group
• http//www.facebook.com/pages/Salt-Lake-City-UT/Ut
  ah-State-Senate/26236036924

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