The Utah State Legislature will consider major spending increases and bills to increase domestic violence victim services. The proposed amount is $53 million, compared to the $6 million it spends now.
The pending legislation is timely, given the horrific murder-suicide in the southern Utah community of Enoch, where a man is suspected of killing his wife, mother-in-law and five children before taking his own life.
"Our system in Utah is completely upside down," Jemison said."It’s dependent entirely on federal funding, nonprofit organizations that provide these services are fundraising their tails off to try to get the support they need to be on the other end of these hotline calls to try to save lives every day. And it’s time the state really invest in that."
"That really brought this issue home for me and really helped me realize how impactful this is on people’s lives," Lt. Gov. Henderson said in an interview with FOX 13 News."So I've taken some proactive steps to mitigate the problems we have in this state."
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