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Senate advances user-fees reform to third reading after hours-long debate
Summary
Lawmakers advanced a bill to standardize agency fees and require reporting of $265 million in user revenues, but clashing views remained over proposed 90%/25% thresholds that would limit agencies' ability to spend excess fees.
After more than three hours of floor debate, the Utah Senate moved third substitute Senate Bill 24 — a wide-ranging measure to catalog and limit state agency user fees and dedicated credits — onto the third reading calendar on a voice vote, setting up further work and amendments before a final decision.
Sponsor Sen. McAllister urged colleagues that the bill is intended to give the Legislature “some kind of control” over fee revenues collected by state agencies, which he said total roughly $265 million a year. He described the core…
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