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Utah House Speaker frames session around water, affordability and workforce in opening remarks
Summary
The House Speaker opened the 2022 general session urging "the Utah way," outlining five policy pillars — water conservation and Great Salt Lake preservation, affordability and housing, education modernization, institutional stewardship, and support for state workers — and warned of looming pressures from rapid population growth.
The House convened Jan. 18 for the 2022 general session with opening remarks from the Speaker emphasizing a forward-looking, collaborative approach he called the "Utah way." He listed pressing state challenges — depleted hospital capacity, workforce shortages, supply chain interruptions, drought and the shrinking Great Salt Lake, inflation and rising housing costs — and urged lawmakers to act across five policy pillars.
The Speaker said the first pillar is water: accelerate conservation, expand secondary water metering,…
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