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Senate advances partial school‑fund equalization after fiscal-note wrangling
Summary
Senate Bill 34, designed to partially equalize school funding through a five‑year phase-in and index a $24 guarantee to the WPU, passed the Utah Senate despite concerns that the bill's fiscal note could exhaust available uniform school fund fiscal‑note reserves. Vote: 24 ayes, 3 nays, 2 absent.
The Utah State Senate passed Senate Bill 34 on Jan. 31, a bill sponsors described as a partial equalization measure that would, over five years, increase the number of mills that the state guarantees and index that guarantee to the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU).
Senator Craig Taylor, sponsor of the bill, said the legislation "is designed to bring about partial equalization in school funding," explaining that the measure would gradually raise the number of mills the state…
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