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House advances budget bill with CHIP boost and approves several education and tax-exemption measures
Summary
On Feb. 27 the Utah House passed House Bill 150 (fiscal supplemental appropriations) with amendments including a $2 million CHIP funding shift and a $25,000 cervical cancer education allocation; the House also passed school-discipline and education-readiness bills and approved sales-tax exemptions and an optional extended-day kindergarten pilot.
The Utah House moved a package of fiscal and education measures on Feb. 27, passing a floor fiscal supplemental appropriations bill and voting on a set of education and tax-exemption bills before recessing for lunch.
House Bill 150 (fiscal supplemental appropriations) was presented by Representative Bigelow as a vehicle to consolidate committee funding and capital projects. Representative Rittback (Litvak/Whitmack in transcript) offered an amendment to transfer $2 million from the tobacco settlement/general fund restricted account into the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which the sponsor and proponents said would leverage federal matching dollars (the sponsor estimated…
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