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Officials brief committee on opioid settlement funds, new permanent fund and spending limits
Summary
Attorney general’s office, DHHS and county officials outlined how opioid settlement money has been split between state and counties, the new permanent fund structure created by HB 10 and constraints on spending, including a prohibition on using principal and restrictions on supplanting.
State legislative staff, the attorney general’s office, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Utah Association of Counties updated the Health and Human Services Committee on the status and rules governing opioid settlement funds received by Utah.
Seth Anderson, policy analyst with the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, told the committee that Utah has received about $105,000,000 of expected settlement money to date and that the state is scheduled to receive payments over many years. “Utah has received about $105,000,000 of the expected $543,000,000 to date, which will be paid out over the next 17 years roughly,” he said. The settlements generally split money between the counties…
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