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House approves inmate 'cost of care' option after floor fight over limitation period
Summary
House Bill 114 would permit courts to order inmates to pay a ‘cost of care’ (room and board) when they have capacity, a change proponents say can ease local jail funding; an Atkinson amendment proposing an eight‑year statute of limitation failed and the bill passed 54–16.
The Utah House advanced a sentencing option allowing courts to order certain inmates to pay a court-ordered "cost of care," effectively a restitution-like room-and-board obligation, as part of House Bill 114. The bill passed the House 54–16 and will be sent to the Senate.
Sponsor Representative Grant D. Proxman described HB 114 as an additional course of sentencing that dovetails into restitution law and would let courts require those…
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