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House approves SB3 budget adjustments after rejecting health‑insurance amendment
Summary
The Utah House passed Senate Bill 3, a broad package of appropriations adjustments, after defeating an amendment to use restricted tobacco settlement funds and federal matching money to expand health coverage to certain immigrant children. The bill passed 65–10.
The Utah House of Representatives on March 12 approved Senate Bill 3, an appropriations adjustments package that restores funding to several programs and makes technical budget changes, after lawmakers rejected a late amendment to expand children’s health coverage.
Representative Bigelow, the House sponsor, described SB3 as the “Bill of Bills,” saying it restores jail‑reimbursement money, reallocates funds between severance, disaster and water accounts, and includes targeted additions such as $100,000 for a detoxification program for police officers and adjustments to Medicaid prescription capitation (Representative…
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