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Utah House Approves $23.79 Million Catch‑Up for Textbooks, Adds State Board Role in Allocation
Summary
House amends and passes HB 40 to appropriate $23,790,000 for textbook purchases after an audit found statewide shortages; amendment requires annual accounting and allows the State Board of Education to help identify need before the funds are allocated.
Speaker Stevens framed House Bill 40 as a response to a legislative audit that identified a multimillion-dollar shortfall in textbook availability across districts. "The audit report indeed said that we were short in textbooks in the state to the tune of about $30,000,000," the speaker told members while introducing the bill and an amendment that creates annual accounting requirements for textbook funds.
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