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Senate committee advances cleanup bill adding library, history and arts provisions
Summary
Senate Bill 161, described by sponsors as a cleanup bill, was favorably recommended to the Senate floor after committee discussion about restoring grants to campus arts organizations, adding a Women's History Initiative at $150,000 a year, and adjustments to boards and the State Historic Preservation Office to avoid duplicate federal obligations.
A Utah Senate committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend Senate Bill 161, a statutory cleanup measure for the Department of Cultural and Community Engagement, to the full Senate.
Senator Sando introduced the bill and turned the presentation over to Donna Lague, executive director of the Department of Cultural and Community Engagement. "It is indeed a cleanup bill," Lague told the committee, saying the review of code identified programs that should be added to statute and a few duplicative provisions to remove.
The bill adds two previously funded programs into statute: a Women's History Initiative funded at $150,000 a year, and the…
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