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House debate over conservation easement fund focuses on donor-directed spending and legislative appropriation
Summary
Lawmakers debated SB 67, which creates conservation-easement restricted accounts funded by donations and grants; opponents warned donor directions could bypass legislative appropriation, and members proposed inserting 'may not expend' language, substitute motions, and ultimately considered circling the bill for further work.
SALT LAKE CITY — The House floor on Feb. 15 carried an extended debate over SB 67, a bill to create restricted accounts for conservation-easement monitoring funded by grants and donations.
Representative Menlove, sponsor, said the measure establishes two restricted accounts to pay for monitoring and enforcing easements held by the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture and Food and cited roughly 59 easements currently held by Natural Resources divisions. Representative Snow moved to delete language (lines 45–46 and 62–63) that he said would allow…
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