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House strikes enacting clause on budget bill to block diversion of tobacco cessation funds
Summary
The Utah House voted to strike the enacting clause of first substitute HB 444, a procedural move that destroys the bill and signals opposition to diverting tobacco cessation funds; sponsors said cessation and CHIP funds were already restored in Senate Bill 3.
The Utah House of Representatives voted to strike the enacting clause of first substitute HB 444, a procedural action that, under suspension of the rules, effectively invalidates the bill on the House calendar.
Representative Ron Bigelow, who moved the action, told colleagues the effect of removing the clause is ‘‘to destroy the bill because it is no longer valid nor functioning as a bill.’’ He said…
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