Governor Signs Student Safety Bills at Cyprus High

Governor Gary Herbert ceremonially signed a package of student safety bills this morning at Cyprus High School in Magna. He also spoke to students about preventing suicide among kids in Utah. The new laws are aimed at preventing youth suicide, bullying and teen traffic accidents caused by distracted driving. But the occasion was mostly focused on suicide, which according to the Utah Department of Health is the second leading cause of death among Utah youth and young adults. “I believe we’re here to help each other, to make things better, to smooth out some of the bumps in the road for each other," Governor Herbert says. "And if we’ll do that, we’ll have a much better time in life we can eliminate this really sad statistic." Cyprus Sophomore Jane Burns says she’s still recovering from the suicide of one of her friends, which she says might have been prevented with some adult intervention. “In movies they have this stigma where they don’t have any friends but it’s not really like that,"