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Utah House introduces base budget bills, applies 2% ongoing cut amid capital-gains uncertainty
Summary
Representatives received two base-budget bills that exclude one-time spending and apply a 2% across-the-board reduction (about $88 million) while revenue from capital gains remains uncertain; committees may later restore funds, and floor action on posted bills was deferred to upcoming days.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House of Representatives opened its session with procedural business and the first reading of two base-budget measures, one of which covers the minimum school program. Representative Bigelow told members two bills were distributed to desks that set a baseline of ongoing funding and deliberately exclude one-time allocations.
Bigelow said the bills apply a 2% across-the-board reduction to ongoing budgets, a step he said reflects "about $88,000,000," and is intended to avoid treating roughly $100,000,000 of projected capital-gains revenue as ongoing until revenue estimates…
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