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House passes Minimum School Program Act with WPU increase and charter reporting and deadline changes
Summary
The Utah House passed House Bill 3, the Minimum School Program Act, approving a 3.5% increase in the Weighted Pupil Unit, a roughly $2.2 billion package of school funding, a reporting requirement extension to include charter schools, and a moved charter-approval deadline; vote was 71‑0.
The Utah House passed House Bill 3, the Minimum School Program Act, after extended debate and several floor amendments, voting 71‑0 to send the bill to the Senate for further consideration.
Representative Snow, sponsor of the bill, said the fiscal note shows a total appropriation of about $2.2–$2.257 billion including roughly $1.8 billion to the Uniform School Fund, $9.9 million from a restricted account, $446 million in local revenue and a $27.2 million allocation to the school building program. Snow said the minimum school program funding in the bill represents a 5% increase over last year’s budgeted figures and raises the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) from…
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