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Utah Senate approves acceptance of federal ARPA funds and clears a package of technical and policy bills in May special session
Summary
On May 19, 2021, the Utah Senate passed a joint resolution to accept American Rescue Plan Act funds and approved several bills — including vaping-rule cleanups, peace officer training language, public-notice fixes and an Upstart kindergarten funding cleanup — then recessed while awaiting House action.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Senate convened a first special session on May 19, 2021, and passed a slate of bills and a joint resolution that together authorize and appropriate federal COVID-19 relief funds and correct a number of technical and policy items from the 2021 general session.
The Senate approved Senate Joint Resolution 101, which authorizes the state to accept funds made available under Public Law 117-2 (the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021). Senators referenced fiscal estimates during debate — one senator said “about a billion six,” while the fiscal note cited approximately $1.7 billion — and the resolution passed under suspension of the rules by a voice and roll-call tally the clerk recorded as 27 ayes, 0 nays and 2 absent. The resolution will be transmitted to the House for its consideration.
The chamber also moved quickly through a series of bills, largely described by sponsors as technical fixes or clarifications.
Senate Bill 1003, an electronic-cigarette and nicotine-products cleanup, was presented by Senator Bramble as correcting unintended loopholes in recent vaping legislation and aligning enforcement and compliance checks with tobacco and alcohol…
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