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House corrects cap on Unified Fire Authority property tax to match operating needs
Summary
Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1,003 to raise a property tax cap for certain county service areas—most immediately affecting the Unified Fire Authority in Salt Lake County—adopting an amendment that lowered the senate’s proposed cap from 0.0023 to 0.0021 before passage, 69–1.
The Utah House passed Senate Bill 1,003 on April 20 to correct a statutory cap on property-tax levies for certain county service areas, a change designed to align the cap with the Unified Fire Authority’s operating needs.
Representative Kevin Hutchings (name as spoken in the House) explained the bill corrects a technical oversight from 2004: when the Unified Fire Authority was created, operating expenses required a rate of 0.0019 but a separate statutory cap remained at…
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