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House approves public education base-budget amendments after heated floor debate
Summary
The House on Feb. 10 passed first substitute Senate Bill 1, a base-budget adjustment for public education that identified about $63 million in potential cuts and preserves an allocation for expected enrollment growth; the bill passed 56–17 after members raised concerns about charter funding and cuts to specific programs.
The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 10 passed first substitute Senate Bill 1, the public education base-budget amendments, by a recorded vote of 56 yes to 17 no. The measure, designed as a ‘stress test’ of the K–12 base budget, identifies about $63 million in potential reductions while the committee separately moved to fund student enrollment growth in a later final appropriation.
The bill’s House sponsor summarized the committee’s work, saying the subcommittee reviewed roughly $3.9 billion in state-appropriated public-education funding and recommended about $63 million in reductions—roughly 2 percent—and that the committee also unanimously endorsed a motion to fully fund projected enrollment growth. “We recommended, approximately, dollars 63,000,000 of cuts, just slightly over 2%,” the sponsor…
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