In 2015, Hannah Warburton of Huntsville — a teenager who had been a student body officer with straight As — was in crisis and called a suicide prevention line. No one answered.
“This bill is designed to ensure that never happens again in the state of Utah to one of our citizens in a moment of crisis,” he said.
The House unanimously passed the bill, and sent it to the Senate, to require that crisis lines operate around the clock every day of the year, or that calls are transferred to a statewide line that does. Legislative analysts estimate that will cost the state about $2.