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House amends HB 442 bonding bill, strips highway projects and keeps building priorities
Summary
After hours of floor debate, the Utah House adopted amendments to House Bill 442 that preserved building and education projects while deleting highway (200-series) funding and removing a narrowly defined revenue-bond authorization for a proposed court complex; the committee sponsor said the revised package totaled about $79.8 million.
Representative Evans, sponsor of the committee amendment to House Bill 442, told the House the package preserved a set of building and education projects while deleting the highway series and adjusting several line items to reflect committee priorities. "All total, that represents a amount of approximately $79,836,000," Evans said while listing projects he proposed to include or remove.
Why it matters: The bonding bill funds capital projects across the state, including university buildings, technology centers and a proposed easement purchase at Hill Air Force Base. Lawmakers debated whether some items were acquisitions or construction and whether revenue bonds tied to a proposed Salt Lake City court complex should remain in the bill.
What the House did: The floor divided a prior Valentine amendment into two parts earlier in debate; the technical portion (which added economic development and other nonconstruction…
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