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Senate approves current‑fiscal‑year budget adjustments after amendment redirects $60,000 to emergency food pantries
Summary
The Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 2,001, a package of current fiscal‑year budget adjustments, after adopting an amendment reallocating a $60,000 one‑time appropriation from the Hale Theater to emergency food pantries; final passage was 25‑0 with four absent.
Senators approved a package of current fiscal‑year budget adjustments Tuesday, adopting an amendment that moves a $60,000 one‑time appropriation from the Hale Theater to emergency food pantries and then passing Senate Bill 2,001 by roll call.
Senator Hilliard, sponsor of SB 2,001, opened debate by thanking staff — “a tremendous amount of appreciation needs to go to our staff, both Jonathan Ball and the fiscal analyst office and Michael Christiansen and his staff and with the governor's office, their staff and the agencies” — and characterizing the process as difficult but necessary. He said the Legislature would revisit budgets in January if needed and stressed he did not foresee a tax increase as a revenue option.
The amendment, offered by…
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