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Utah Senate substitutes and passes first-round base budgets, suspending three-reading rule

Utah State Senate · February 6, 2017
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The Utah Senate on the floor advanced a package of first-substitute base budgets, approving the education base (first substitute Senate Bill 1) and companion agency budgets under suspension of the three-reading requirement to permit immediate final passage.

The Utah Senate on the floor advanced a package of first-substitute base budgets, approving the education base (first substitute Senate Bill 1) and companion agency base budgets under suspension of the three-reading requirement to permit immediate final passage.

Senator Hilliard, sponsor of the education base bill, said the substituted SB1 formalizes performance measures for line items and preserves overall spending levels while correcting allocation errors in fund-account language. "By forming by formalizing these performance metrics and targets for each, we hope that to shift our debate farther away from how much money can we spend ... to what are we buying and what is…

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