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Senate debates and amends the annual Appropriations Act over corrections and HR allocations
Summary
On March 2 the Senate took up House Bill 1 (the annual Appropriations Act), debated technical corrections and where $3.5 million should be allocated — either directly to the Department of Corrections for correctional officer pay or to the Department of Human Resource Management to allocate to statewide 'hot spots' — adopted substitute language expanding the target to 'Corrections and Public Safety' and sent the amended bill back to the House.
The Senate spent substantial floor time on the annual Appropriations Act (House Bill 1), weighing both technical corrections and a contested allocation of $3.5 million intended to address salary shortfalls.
Floor managers described several technical fixes (Utah Tax corrections, match language, and Department of Economic Development allowances) and then turned to contested policy language in the house amendments. The House had applied $3.5 million specifically to the Department of Corrections to address correctional officer salaries; several senators argued that because pay inequities exist across multiple public‑safety and public‑service…
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