Sen. Thatcher on How Utah’s 988 Legislation Was 7 Years in the Making
On March 4, Utah’s legislature passed its 988 Mental Health Crisis Assistance bill. A week later, Gov. Spencer Cox signed it into law. State Sen. Daniel Thatcher says it took seven years to get to this point. It actually started a year before Thatcher’s first three-digit bill—when in 2013, he received a
