Jen Plumb

• H.B. 495 Capital Felony Case Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Sen. Plumb says she is opposed to the death penalty and is concerned about executing an innocent person, so she cannot support speeding up the process.

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  So much weight around this issue of, of capital punishment and the death penalty. And I feel like part of the conversation around this for me is my fundamental concern that we would ever execute an innocent person. And I don't have enough trust or faith in what I have seen with, um, capital punishment cases and cases that have ultimately been overturned or someone has been found to not have been guilty. So, you know, I I am fundamentally opposed to the death penalty and to the state taking life, although I certainly hear of cases where I even within my own self understand where it comes from. I think the hard part is I don't think it is …

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• S.B. 149 Licensing Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains a change that was made in committee in the House Health and Human Services committee.

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  Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. This was a change we made in committee in house HHS While I

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• H.B. 259 Parental Access to Children's Medical Records Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Raises concern that the bill may conflict with federal law where health systems may block parent access to protect a child from abuse, and asks whether this was addressed.

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  Thank you, Mr. President. I, I have some concerns that we may be putting ourselves in, um, kind of contradiction with federal law on some pieces of this. I know, for example, if there's a case where, uh, there's a child that's in a situation where there's concern about abuse, either from one or both parents, that the health system does have the ability, and some may even say the obligation to block that from being accessed by the parent for the child's safety. Has there been any dialogue about this being incongruent with the federal expectations and regulations that we have?

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• H.B. 508 State Facilities Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Plumb compared the bill's approach to self-insurance in a health system and asked if it is a similar setup.

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  Uh, thank you Mr. President Prote. As I, as I'm listening to this back and forth, I'm thinking a little bit about, um, my other day slash night job where we are in a medical space and the decision has been made to self-insure. So like in the University of Utah Health System, there's a, a self-insurance process by which we do take on some, the, the system takes on some risk, but then also pays out. Am I kind of hearing the same sort of a, a setup in what you're envisioning?

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• H.B. 270 Healthcare Worker Post-Employment Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Supports the bill, saying it will help patients whose therapists left without notifying them of where they went.

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  Mr. President Pro? Thank you Mr. President Pro tem. I rise in support of this bill and also in the work that went into it and the conversations that were making it very clear what the key, uh, pieces were. And I think as the good senator referenced the fact that people's therapists were having to essentially abandon them and not let them know where they went because of misinterpretations. This is really going to do good for folks and I appreciate it coming forward.

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• H.B. 410 Water Leasing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Announces that Salt Lake City PD is holding its 175th anniversary event in the Capitol boardroom from 1 to 3 and invites senators to attend.

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  Quick quick announcement. I could have come to your microphone with it. Um, the Salt Lake City PD is hosting their hundred and 75th anniversary down in the Capitol boardroom between one and three. They have some cool kind of historic items and if anyone's able to stop by, I am sure they would love it. So thank you.

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• H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Said the bill has been a difficult process and that the remaining change seems to add confusion to policy.

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  Uh, uh, I do not Envy do we need my friend as well? Uh, no, I Do not envy you. I mean, I can only imagine this Bill has, has done a lot of things this session and has been a lot of things. And I think perhaps the, the back and forth that we're all experiencing here is part of the, this bill ain't much left except the final piece of what feels like wasn't very kind policy all along. And so I think maybe as we get more answers, a as I'm even just listening to folks, I'm like, wow, that maybe the writing's on the wall that as pieces got stripped out, that maybe that's what's left …

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• H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Asked whether the bill keeps gender in some places and uses sex in others, and whether that was discussed.

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  I, I think one of the clarifying things that we were stumbling around with was, it seems very much to me and maybe to some of my other committee members that, um, this actually introduces a decent amount of disconnect where it, not to unify the policy, but there are some spaces where it would stay as gender and there others where it would say as sex. And I wondered if, as you would all had constructed this, if there had been dialogues about what kind of that looked like.

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• H.B. 183 Sex Designation Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Expressed concern about the bill's past harms and made a motion to hold the bill.

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  I don't know if there's any other questions, but I think kind of with what I alluded to before, I, one of the things that has been most distasteful to me trying to nego navigate this policy was the cruelty that, that people felt personally directed at them in the beginning. And again, here you are sitting in it. Yeah. Um, and I think that the pieces that in particular made it seem that some were less worthy of, of working in certain spaces or doing certain jobs, um, was frankly heart wrenching and completely inappropriate and did put in some people's minds that oth other sons amongst us are not as worthy as others. And so, while I'm grateful …

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• H.B. 599 Social Services Funding Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Plumb moved to favorably recommend H.B. 599 third substitute to the full Senate.

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  With the tyrannosaurus arm. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Uh, chair. I would love to make a motion if we could, to favorably recommend out house bill. Is it 5 99 sub Three Three, uh, favorably to the full body of the Senate.

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• H.B. 381 Electric Mobility Device Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026

  Thanks the sponsors, citing increasing youth injuries from powerful e-bikes that she has seen in emergency departments.

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  Thank you, Mr. President. I, I just wanted to, um, offer thanks to the sponsors of this bill, given the increasing number of injuries that I have seen in the emergency department and actually across emergency departments across this state related to injuries in our youth on these sometimes really powerful devices. So I think thought that is going into this is appreciated and, and will be protective of our kids. So thank you for that.

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• S.B. 142 Private Probation and Court Ordered Services Amendments · House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Presents S.B. 142 as a cleanup bill clarifying that private probation supervision and treatment must be separate, and that neither an individual nor a human services program may provide both.

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  Oh, thanks. Uh, committee members for having us here today. Senate Bill 1 42 is actually a very simple little, uh, cleanup clarification piece. Um, a bill that, uh, set, uh, Representative Loubet and I had run two years ago on, uh, clarifying that supervision or private probation and supervision and treatment should be separate spaces. Uh, meaning the conflict of interest if you're providing those in the same space is pretty significant. If the person who is running your probation and determines when you've completed treatment is also the person getting paid to do your treatment, you have a little bit of a problem there. So, the bill was run two years ago, and it turns out there was …

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• S.B. 224 Vital Records Access Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Presented SB 224, which would let a homeless youth or child liaison obtain vital records on behalf of students so they can access McKinney-Vento funding and services.

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  Much appreciation. Um, with thanks to my colleague as well. This is very, hopefully quick. Um, and we'll speed him right into the chair. Um, this bill is a product Senate Bill 2 24 is a product of an NCSL, um, fellowship on, uh, homelessness and homeless youth that I participated with folks from around the country and learned a whole lot from educators and, and people in all sorts of different related spaces. But one of the questions that they had asked us to ask our people when we come back is, are your educators and your administrators able to get all the documentation, et cetera, that they need to be able to get their McKinney Bento funds? Which …

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• S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Presented the bill, explaining that vitamin K prevents newborn bleeding, that refusals and related brain hemorrhages are rising, and that the bill as amended requires health care providers to educate parents about vitamin K with an opt-out process.

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  All right. Um, thank you all again. As we get near to the end for having me here. Um, this bill is one that I, I am really interested in the conversations as much as I am, uh, in the policy on it because I think that, um, there have been some trends that we've noticed in, in pediatric medicine in particular and in neonatal and newborn medicine that kind of give pause and have made me wonder a bit about what could we do better to help families in this, both exciting, exhausting, and wonderful, but sometimes terrifying time to have optimal information to make the choices that they see best for their families. And this bill deals with …

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• S.B. 170 Vitamin K Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Explained the bill had been narrowed to an education requirement, with the opt-out language kept so families would not have to fight for an opt-out, and offered to remove it.

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  No, No, No. It, it, when it started, initially the bill was for administration and then with more conversations with folks, so it was administration and then also a clear opt-out process. And then with more conversations with people didn't have the right temperature check for, for decent chunks of the, of the state. So, so it is just an education requirement. And I considered pulling out the optout part, but people told me that having an optout, there felt actually, um, like it wasn't an attempt to force something that it was clear that this would just be established, that there wouldn't have to be a fight for an optout, that it would just be established. I can absolutely …

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