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Senate deadlocks on charter school funding bill after hours of debate
Summary
After extended debate over whether to increase the local property-tax share that follows students to charter schools, the Utah Senate failed to advance SB202 on a 14-14 tie with one member absent. Sponsors said the bill would equalize funding; opponents warned it could force local tax increases and weaken local oversight.
Senate Bill 202, a bill to change how local property-tax replacement funds follow students to charter schools, failed in a tied vote on the Utah Senate floor after a lengthy floor debate.
Senator Howard Stevenson, the bill sponsor, said the measure would make replacement funding uniform across the state and gradually increase the local contribution that follows a charter-school student from the current 25% toward 50% in 2 percentage-point steps. "It ensures that the local replacement funding that follows students is uniform across the state,…
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