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Senate advances Public Education base budget after debate over cuts and reclassification
Summary
The Utah Senate on Feb. 1, 2011, passed a substituted Public Education base budget (First Substitute SB 1) after floor debate over whether reclassifying line items masked deeper cuts; the measure passed on a roll call and was forwarded to the House.
The Utah Senate passed First Substitute Senate Bill 1, the Public Education base budget, on Feb. 1, 2011, sending the measure to the Utah House for further action. The Senate voted to consider and pass the substitute under suspension of the rules; the clerk recorded the roll as 19 yeas, 7 nays and 3 absent on the principal roll call for the motion to consider and advance the bill.
Senators debated whether the substitute represented a restoration of growth funding or a reclassification that amounted to larger cuts. Senator Lyle Hilliard, presenting the substitute for Senator Butters, said the committee kept the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) level and “funded the growth” by moving certain previously below-the-line allocations above the line; he noted…
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