Capitol Trip

Salt Lake City-GYC spent February 6th at the Utah State Capitol watching the Legislative session and educating our representatives.

Despite a snowy start and a few delays the capitol trip was a huge success. GYC was able to watch the reading of H.B. 40 right as they walked into the House session. While sitting in on the Senate session, several bills were read and voted on.

The highlight of the trip came as GYC met with their representatives. GYC was honored to visit with representatives    Jack Draxler, Ed Redd, Curt Webb, Rhonda Menlove, and Lee Perry. They were able to educate us on the whole legislative process and on some of the bills they are currently working on. In return GYC was able to explain some of the issue they see and educate them a little on e-cigarettes.

A rally was held in the morning surrounding raising the legal age for tobacco to 21. Because of this the state was able to provide the several youth groups in attendance with t-shirts and box lunches, thank you. GYC would also like to thank Lee Perry for helping schedule the capitol for us and the Weber-Morgan Health Department's youth group for joining us on the tour and their work in planning the day.




 Please enjoy a few pictures from our day!