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Utah Code Title 26B. Utah Health and Human Services Codes § 26B-1-325. Governor's Suicide Prevention Fund

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) There is created an expendable special revenue fund known as the “Governor's Suicide Prevention Fund.”

(2) The fund shall consist of donations, gifts, grants, and bequests of real property or personal property made to the fund.

(3) A donor to the fund may designate a specific purpose for the use of the donor's donation, if the designated purpose is described in Subsection (4).

(4)(a) Subject to Subsection (3), money in the fund shall be used for the following activities:

(i) efforts to directly improve mental health crisis response;

(ii) efforts that directly reduce risk factors associated with suicide; and

(iii) efforts that directly enhance known protective factors associated with suicide reduction.

(b) Efforts described in Subsections (4)(a)(ii) and (iii) include the components of the state suicide prevention program described in Subsection 26B-5-611(3).

(5) The Office of Substance Use and Mental Health shall establish a grant application and review process for the expenditure of money from the fund.

(6) The grant application and review process shall describe:

(a) requirements to complete a grant application;

(b) requirements to receive funding;

(c) criteria for the approval of a grant application;

(d) standards for evaluating the effectiveness of a project proposed in a grant application; and

(e) support offered by the office to complete a grant application.

(7) The Office of Substance Use and Mental Health shall:

(a) review a grant application for completeness;

(b) make a recommendation to the governor or the governor's designee regarding a grant application;

(c) send a grant application to the governor or the governor's designee for evaluation and approval or rejection;

(d) inform a grant applicant of the governor or the governor's designee's determination regarding the grant application; and

(e) direct the fund administrator to release funding for grant applications approved by the governor or the governor's designee.

(8) The state treasurer shall invest the money in the fund under Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act, except that all interest or other earnings derived from money in the fund shall be deposited into the fund.

(9) Money in the fund may not be used for the Office of the Governor's administrative expenses that are normally provided for by legislative appropriation.

(10) The governor or the governor's designee may authorize the expenditure of fund money in accordance with this section.

(11) The governor shall make an annual report to the Legislature regarding the status of the fund, including a report on the contributions received, expenditures made, and programs and services funded.

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