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A state "homeless services campus"—a single facility combining emergency shelter, mental health treatment, and other support services for people experiencing homelessness—would, under this bill, require the state homelessness coordinator, working with the Utah Homeless Services Board, to create a detailed plan within 30 days of a campus location being announced (or by June 5, 2026, if the location is announced before May 6, 2026). That plan would need to cover areas such as criminal justice assistance, emergency shelter operations, employment support, behavioral health and addiction treatment, case management, transitional housing, transportation, round-the-clock safety and security, staffing and licensing requirements (including a cap of three patients per behavioral health provider), and public health measures such as mosquito control. The coordinator would also be required to collect incident reports from law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services responding to the campus and forward them to the state's homeless services ombudsman, who would investigate the campus for compliance every six months and within 10 days of receiving a complaint or incident report; if violations are found, the campus would get 30 days under a remediation plan to fix them, and the ombudsman could recommend the campus halt non-emergency operations if it receives at least three complaints or incident reports in a calendar quarter, fails to cure a violation, or finds a measurable decline in resident or community safety, with the Legislature able to withhold future state funding from a noncompliant campus. The bill also requires annual reporting on complaints, investigations, and compliance to the Executive Appropriations Committee and directs the ombudsman's office to adopt rules implementing these investigation procedures, with the changes taking effect May 6, 2026.