SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah Senate spokesman says Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund is improving a day after he collapsed at a leadership meeting and was rushed to the hospital.
Senate Chief of Staff Ric Cantrell says Okerlund is tired but cheerful and is undergoing tests at a local hospital.
Cantrell says he is only releasing details that Okerlund’s family has agreed to release. They have declined to name which hospital he was taken to because they do not want him to receive visitors.
Senate staff and Okerlund’s legislative colleagues have said he had a “medical event,” but they haven’t released further details.
The Monroe Republican was not expected to return to the last day of the legislative session Thursday.
The bills he was sponsoring were handed off to other lawmakers.
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