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Utah Senate advances wide set of bills on education, land, public safety and technical fixes
Summary
The Utah Senate spent its morning session advancing multiple bills and resolutions — including measures on school trust lands endowment strategy, a foster‑care psychotropics pilot, enterprise zone tax credit oversight, and a computer‑science initiative — and voted to table one bill to third reading.
The Utah State Senate used its morning floor session to move a broad slate of bills through third reading, adopting resolutions and passing several measures that touch education funding, land trust management and public‑safety policy.
A key theme of the session was education: the chamber advanced Senate Bill 109, a proposal to shift the School and Institutional Trust Lands Fund toward an endowment model with a 4% distribution ceiling; the body also approved House Bill 28, which creates grants for educator professional learning, and passed Senate Bill 93, a computer‑science initiative funded from the general fund. Senate Bill 109 requires a subsequent constitutional amendment to implement the proposed endowment distribution policy.
Law‑and‑order and local‑government items moved as well. The body…
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