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Committee backs first substitute to rely primarily on Utah Population Committee estimates for state uses
Summary
The committee voted unanimously to adopt and recommend first substitute House Bill 379, shifting many state uses from census estimates to the Utah Population Committee’s locally built estimates and establishing a blending method where local data are incomplete.
Representative Grishas presented the first substitute to House Bill 379, which shifts many state uses of population data from reliance on decennial census and Census Bureau estimates to estimates produced by the Utah Population Committee (UPC), housed at the Kem C. Gardner Institute. The sponsor said UPC can incorporate state and local administrative data and provide more timely and granular county and subcounty estimates for state formulas.
The bill creates a methodology for blending UPC data with census data where UPC data are unavailable, and…
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