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Utah House approves multiple Senate base-budget bills, including $1.6 billion higher-education package
Summary
On Feb. 8, 2016 the Utah House passed several Senate base-budget bills on third reading, including SB 1 (a $1.6 billion higher-education base budget) and companion bills addressing labor, retirement, infrastructure and veterans programs; votes were unanimous or nearly so on each measure.
The Utah House on Feb. 8 approved a set of Senate base-budget bills on third reading, including SB 1, a higher-education base budget that the House sponsor said appropriates $1.6 billion to Utah’s eight public colleges and universities. The bills were moved through the calendar under a procedural motion to lift them from the Rules Committee for immediate consideration.
Representative Grover, the House sponsor for SB 1, told members the $1.6 billion package is funded from three sources: “the general fund, which is $390,000,000, the education fund, 524,000,000, and then an additional 725,000,000 from dedicated credits,” the sponsor said. He described dedicated credits as primarily tuition and said institutions have been asked to find efficiencies and…
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