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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's Senate has given preliminary approval to a plan offering optional training to middle school students on what to do if they encounter a weapon or if a gunman enters their school.
The Senate voted 18-7 Tuesday afternoon to advance the idea. The Senate must still vote to give final approval to the measure before it can be debated in the House of Representatives. That final vote could come this week.
Republican Sen. Todd Weiler of Woods Cross sponsors the proposal and says not all parents may know how to talk to their kids about gun safety.
If schools or districts choose to offer the class, parents would have to give consent for their child to participate.
Weiler says no guns will be brought into the class.
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