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Senate refuses House position on education task force; conference committee named
Summary
Senators debated whether nonlegislative education officials should have voting seats on a legislative task force reviewing mandates and an audit. After debate, the Senate refused to recede from its amendments and appointed a conference committee to negotiate with the House.
The Utah Senate spent much of its morning session in a heated debate over who should have voting authority on a new public education task force created to review legislative mandates and a State Office of Education audit. Senator Poulton moved that the Senate recede from its own amendments and accept the House position removing nonlegislative voting members; senators opposed that change, arguing it would exclude the perspectives of locally elected school board members and the State Board of Education.
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