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Senate passes supplemental public-education budget that adds millions for K–12 and higher education
Summary
The Senate passed Senate Bill 4, a current-school-year supplemental public education budget measure that sponsors said includes more than $425 million in new funding for public and higher education and adjustments to teacher supplements; the bill passed by voice/roll-call and is to be sent to the House.
The Utah Senate on March 9 passed Senate Bill 4, a supplemental appropriation for the current school year that sponsors said includes substantial funding adjustments for K–12 and higher education.
Senator Brent Hilliard, sponsor of SB 4, told the floor the bill contains a series of appropriations and adjustments that together add "more than $425,000,000 in new funding for public and higher education." He said the bill includes items approved by the executive appropriations committee and that two late changes were added:…
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