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Senator Hilliard warns sequestration, revised revenue estimates will squeeze Utah budget
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Senator J. Hilliard told the Senate that earlier revenue assumptions had shifted and staff now expect sequestration impacts; he cited a $25 million structural imbalance in public education and urged close review with appropriations subcommittee chairs to finish the fiscal year budget.
Senator J. Hilliard briefed the Utah Senate on updated budget projections, saying staff no longer expect the revenue assumptions the Legislature used when preparing for the session and that sequestration scheduled for March 1 was now built into staff models.
Hilliard said the November figures had assumed "$300,000,000 ongoing, dollars $121,000,000 one time," but that those estimates rested on…
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