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House approves Senate appropriations adjustment after failed amendment to fund women’s-education initiative
Summary
The Utah House passed Senate Bill 3, the session’s appropriations-adjustment measure, after floor debate and several amendments. A proposed amendment to add ongoing funding for a Utah women’s college-education initiative failed; other technical amendments passed and SB3 cleared the House 60–8.
The Utah House on March 14 passed Senate Bill 3, the appropriations-adjustment bill that supplements and reduces previous appropriations for fiscal year 2012–13 and provides funding and intent language for the coming year.
Representative Mel Brown, the bill sponsor, told colleagues SB3 “concludes our budgetary process this year” and that the measure provides targeted increases and decreases across state agencies and institutions of higher education. Lawmakers debated several floor…
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