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Speaker Moody opens 1992 session, emphasizes budget balance, education, child safety and toxic-waste protections
Summary
Speaker H. Craig Moody opened the 1992 Utah House session, urging fiscal prudence ('one of nine states' with a surplus), plans to shift from welfare to workfare with childcare, attention to student growth, child safety and gangs, health-care access, toxic-waste protections, and preparation for defense job losses.
Speaker H. Craig Moody used his opening floor time to outline the House's policy priorities for the 1992 general session, front-loading fiscal balance and a focus on families alongside specific policy areas the House intends to tackle.
Moody said the House's "first priority is to balance the budget," and noted Utah was "one of nine states that finds ourselves with either a surplus or flat in terms of revenues," a fiscal position he framed as a responsibility to avoid risky borrowing approaches. He urged members to "stay away from the credit card approach"…
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