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Senate approves amended tobacco‑settlement spending plan after heated debate
Summary
After extensive floor debate and multiple substitute amendments, the Utah Senate on Feb. 28, 2000 approved a second substitute of Senate Bill 15 allocating tobacco-settlement receipts between a permanent trust and near-term spending for prevention, drug courts, children’s health insurance and university health sciences; the package passed on a 17‑vote majority and will go to the House.
The Senate on Feb. 28, 2000 extensively debated how to allocate proceeds from the national tobacco settlement. Sponsors said the bill creates two restricted state accounts: a permanent trust (to receive a portion of receipts over time) and a restricted spending account for near‑term appropriations. The floor considered multiple competing amendments that shifted funds between a long-term endowment and immediately spendable prevention and treatment programs.
Senator Fulton,…
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