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Utah House advances base-budget bills, citing over $80 million in offsets and savings
Summary
Floor debate and substitutions advanced first-substitute base budgets for higher education, business/economic development, retirement entities, infrastructure and other state agencies; sponsors cited institutional efficiencies and specific appropriations totals while emphasizing the statutory deadline to pass base budgets.
The Utah House advanced several first-substitute base-budget bills on Feb. 6 as part of a concentrated effort to meet the legislative deadline for base budgets.
Representative Sanpei told the chamber the House had identified "more than $80,000,000 of base budget reductions and offsets" available for reallocation over coming weeks and emphasized the rules requirement that base budgets be passed by day 16. "So our intent is to deal with give those to the Senate," he said, describing a schedule to exchange base budgets between the chambers ahead of the deadline.
On higher education, Representative Grover presented first substitute HB 1,…
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