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House adopts conference report on prison relocation bill after narrowing scope on private prisons
Summary
The Utah House adopted the conference committee report on Eighth Substitute Senate Bill 72, which relocates and directs planning for a new prison but removes prescriptive language requiring the authority to consider private prisons. Representative Wilson moved adoption; the bill passed 51-22 and will return to the Senate.
The Utah House on March 14 adopted the second conference committee report replacing Senate Bill 72 with an eighth substitute that directs a prison authority to plan for a potential new prison site but removes language that would have required consideration of private prisons.
Representative Wilson moved adoption of the conference committee report and described the change as narrowing prior requirements. “All we've done now is said that, Prada will issue request for proposal looking for a potential… new prison development project means a project for…
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