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House approves amendments to education voucher bill, boosting oversight funding and adding background checks
Summary
Lawmakers passed House Bill 174 with amendments to increase startup funding for voucher administration to a total of $200,000, add background-check requirements, tighten income verification language, and move the program audit schedule earlier; the bill passed 54—or, 11 gainst, 10 absent.
The Utah House on Feb. 22 amended and passed legislation changing the state's education-voucher implementation.
Representative Last, who presented the amendments, said the changes are intended to make the voucher program work by strengthening administration and oversight. The substitute adds funding so the state office can write rules and verify parental income; the sponsor said the $200,000 figure is intended to support roughly two full-time staff positions. The bill also adds a requirement for criminal-background checks for certain…
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