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Utah Senate passes SB 1 and a package of base budgets, including $2.0 billion for higher education
Summary
On day 9 of the 60th Legislature the Utah Senate passed a package of base budget bills, including SB 1 (higher education base budget) and SB 6 (infrastructure and general government), approving multi‑hundred‑million dollar appropriations and sending the measures to the House for consideration.
The Utah Senate on day 9 passed a package of base budget bills that together fund higher education, infrastructure, retirement systems and other state operations.
Senate Bill 1, the higher‑education base budget sponsored by Senator Grover, passed after the sponsor made the three required motions to suspend rules and the Senate’s three‑reading requirement and to read the bill for second and third times under suspension. "From this fund from us, this bill will take 312… That's 312,000,000," Grover said in presenting the bill, which the sponsor described as drawing roughly $312 million from the general fund, $904 million from the education fund and $889 million in dedicated credits (mostly tuition). Grover said the bill aims to…
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