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Utah House debates SB 4001 bonding package amid dispute over heating-plant funding
Summary
Lawmakers debated first substitute Senate Bill 4001 (2002), a bonding package for capital projects, focusing on whether to spend additional millions on heating-plant design or to build the plant now. The House heard competing motions to accept the conference report, to refuse concurrence and appoint a new committee, and an alternative to allocate $9–10 million to construct the plant; a roll-call vote was called but the transcript does not record the result.
The Utah House on the floor considered first substitute Senate Bill 4001 (2002), a bonding package for capital projects, as members argued over whether funds should pay for design work or be used to build a central heating plant immediately.
Representative Adair, speaking for the House conference members, said the Senate committee (Senators Hickman, Evans and Demetriq) and the House committee (Representatives Adair, Curtis and King) recommended the House adopt the original first substitute SB 4001. Adair described long-running deliberations, noting planning and design work already accounted for roughly $17 million and that an additional $8 million had been inserted during the last session. “That heat plant has to be…
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