Top Utah House leaders say they are taking to heart challenges from Senate candidate Mitt Romney and President Donald Trump for states to act quickly on preventing school shootings because Congress has long been at an impasse.
House Speaker Greg Hughes said the House is forming a group to look quickly at what lawmakers could do this year — even though less than two weeks remain in the legislative session.
“We’re crazy enough to try to do it while we’re still in session here. We want to see if there are things we can do right now,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune.