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Senate adopts substituted budget-adjustment bill, sends first substitute of SB 5,012 to House
Summary
In a special session the Utah Senate substituted and passed first substitute Senate Bill 5,012, a package of technical budget adjustments that reallocates several funds and makes minor program changes; the bill passed on a recorded roll and will be transmitted to the House for consideration.
The Utah Senate on Monday adopted a first substitute to Senate Bill 5,012, a multi-page package of statutory adjustments tied to the state budget, and transmitted the measure to the Utah House for consideration.
Sen. Stevenson moved to delete the original Senate Bill 5,012 and replace it with the first substitute, saying the change package grew more complex than a one-line strike and includes roughly a dozen pages of technical fixes and funding adjustments. "There’s a couple of things that we wanted to take out," Stevenson said, noting the substitute reallocated funding for waste-tire recycling, voter-information packets, insurance and hospital provider allocations, ambulance services, and tweaked the liquor-control fund distribution and underage-drinking programming percentages.
Stevenson also mentioned a provision related to in vitro fertilization and genetic testing that she described as producing a small savings "about $40,000," and said the substitute makes several date and technical clarifications so previously passed items can be funded in the current budgeting process. The sponsor urged colleagues to review the 12 pages of changes and cautioned that a few items may need to be revisited as the budget process continues.
The chamber voted under suspension of the rules to replace the original bill with the first substitute; the clerk recorded the tally in the transcript and the bill was declared passed and scheduled for transmittal to the House. The clerk’s readback of the tally in the transcript contains two closely worded readouts (the first read as 27 yay, 0 nay and a later readback recorded 28 yay, 0 nay, 1 absent); the clerk declared the first substitute passed and will send it to the House for consideration.
The substitute rebalances several dedicated funds and percentages rather than eliminating programs, the sponsor said, and left intact underage-drinking prevention programming while reducing its percentage share from a fund that has experienced multiyear growth. The Senate’s action was procedural and limited to substituting and approving the amended statutory language; no new appropriations beyond technical reallocations were adopted in the floor action reported here.
The Senate also received communications from the House about other measures, including the House’s passage of bills and concurrent resolutions that the clerk transmitted for the president’s signature. The first substitute to SB 5,012 will now go to the House for further consideration.
