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Committee backs bill to add revenue metric and five‑year review to county classification
Summary
The Political Subdivisions Interim Committee recommended favorably a bill that would require counties to meet both population and revenue thresholds (each at 200% of class averages) and institute five‑year reviews to trigger reclassification, amid debate and three public testifiers.
The Political Subdivisions Interim Committee voted to favorably recommend draft legislation that would change how Utah determines county classification, adding a revenue test to the long‑standing population measure and setting a five‑year review cycle.
Senator Winterton, sponsor of the committee bill, told the committee the measure is intended to give counties ‘‘some certainty as to changing classifications and how that would happen’’ by using a two‑metric test. Under the draft language outlined to the committee, a county would only be eligible for reclassification if it met both population and revenue triggers — each defined as 200% of the current average for the county’s classification — with the data to come from the state population…
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