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Utah Senate Rejects Measure to Fix Basic School Tax Levy After Heated Debate
Summary
The Utah Senate rejected first substitute Senate Bill 17 on third reading after a lengthy floor debate over whether fixing the basic school tax levy would shore up education funding or amount to an automatic property-tax increase for homeowners. The bill failed 14–15.
Senate leaders on Wednesday debated and then rejected first substitute Senate Bill 17, a proposal to set a minimum basic school tax levy intended to stop what supporters described as a steady erosion of school funding.
Senator Jones, sponsor of the bill, framed it as a remedy to declining per‑pupil funding: “We can liken it to the sales tax … we spend $256 less than the lowest state in the union,” he said, arguing that keeping the levy at a fixed rate would restore hundreds of millions of dollars to…
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