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Senate approves transportation funding bill; amendment allows transit operations and optional county homeless funding
Summary
First Substitute Senate Bill 260 passed after an amendment that explicitly allows transit operations as an eligible use and permits counties of the first class to allocate up to 0.05 of the tax amount for homelessness and mental-health services.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate passed First Substitute Senate Bill 260 on a roll-call vote after adopting an amendment broadening permissible uses of a county sales-and-use tax set-aside.
Senator Cullimore offered Amendment 2 to clarify that in counties of the first class the portion of the county tax that may fund transit can also be used for operations,…
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