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House approves funding adjustments, restores $1 million to Office of Recovery Services in amended HB 1,003
Summary
The Utah House on May 20 approved House Bill 1,003 as amended, restoring $1,000,000 in general fund support to the Office of Recovery Services to help replace a failing COBOL-based system and authorizing several agencies to spend designated federal stimulus funds under ARRA; final passage was 63-11.
The Utah House of Representatives voted on May 20 to pass House Bill 1,003 as amended, approving budget adjustments related to Medicaid, education stabilization funds and federal stimulus-authorized spending. The bill, as amended, passed the House by a roll call announced as 63 yes and 11 no and will be transmitted to the Senate for consideration.
Representative Bigelow, who sponsored the amendments and offered the bill’s summary, said the first amendment restores $1,000,000 in state general fund money to the Office of Recovery Services (ORS). According to Bigelow, "the Office of Recovery Services will receive $1,000,000 which will go towards the implementation of this new computerized system," and he said the agency’s current computer system — formerly written in COBOL and…
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