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Senate advances Appropriations Act as lawmakers address technical corrections and capital items
Summary
Senate floor debate on SB1 covered the executive appropriations package and technical fixes to capital items; members circled the bill for staff corrections and approved it for House transmission after votes to adjust capital item grouping and markups.
Salt Lake City — Lawmakers spent substantial floor time on Senate Bill 1, the Appropriations Act that assembles multiple subcommittee priorities into a single spending package.
Senator Blackcomb, presenting the bill, described SB1 as the product of subcommittees and executive appropriations and said it was on senators’ desks and ‘‘ready to pass.’’ Members raised technical concerns about how a purchase listed as item 64 was presented separately instead of folded into the capital facilities package. Senator Knudson and others urged a technical amendment to group that item back under the capital total; the chamber adopted the amendment and a series of small drafting fixes.
The floor also addressed Medicaid matching requirements and tradeoffs with optional Medicaid benefits, and language to correct an electronic-purchasing markup percentage was fixed on the floor. Several senators noted the need to prioritize and asked staff to prepare technical corrections while the bill was circled for further review.
After those technical fixes and the adoption of amendments, SB1 was placed on the third-reading calendar and later passed the Senate and was transmitted to the House for consideration.
What’s next: Staff will reconcile the technical framing and item numbering before the House considers the bill.
