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UTAH – In its first convening of the new session, the Utah House Health and Human Services voted on a variety of proposed health legislation on topics ranging from health care for the homeless to vaccine reporting. House Bill 34, sponsored by Rep. Jim Dunnigan, would establish a medical care respite program for homeless individuals in need of physical or mental health care. It would require the Department of Health to apply for a Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment from the Center for Medicaid Services before Jan. 1, 2022, to fund the program. According to Dunnigan, it would prevent…

UTAH – If a person of color walked into a ski resort or a ski-town hotel and saw an image of someone like them, White believes, it could change his or her whole experience. Inspired by that revelation and his own history of being seen as “the unicorn on the mountain,” White embarked last year on his series “Skiing in Color.” It depicts portraits of Black skiers and snowboarders in their element — an extreme rarity on ski resort walls and only slightly less so on their slopes. “If they saw a quality painting of a person of color, it would…