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Utah Senate fast-tracks base budgets for education, natural resources, criminal justice and social services
Summary
The Utah Senate, under suspension of rules, advanced and passed four House base-budget bills — HB1 (public education), HB5 (natural resources), HB6 (executive offices and criminal justice) and HB7 (social services) — approving multi-billion-dollar appropriations and technical corrections to previously submitted language.
The Utah Senate on Day 10 passed a package of base budget bills by suspending standard rules and the constitutional third-reading requirement, approving funding measures for public education, natural resources, executive offices and criminal justice, and social services.
Senator Derek Fillmore presented first substitute House Bill 1, explaining a textual correction to a decimal error and detailing the bill’s funding: "the bill appropriates $6,300,000,000 in total funding for fiscal year '23, $3.9 billion from state funds, $565,000,000 from state fund transfers, and $2.4 billion from other sources," and set the weighted pupil unit at 3,908, a 2.6% increase. Fillmore said the substitute corrects a mistaken decimal that would…
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