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Fiscal analysts outline options to repurpose nonlapsing funds, highlight court security and DPS swaps
Summary
Legislative fiscal analysts presented potential one-time and ongoing reallocations of unspent appropriations across courts, Department of Public Safety and flood response funds, and asked agencies for responses before the committee’s next meeting.
A fiscal analyst for the Utah Legislature on Tuesday laid out a series of options to repurpose nonlapsing balances and one-time savings in state agency budgets, including a proposed $188,000 swap with a court security restricted fund, potential savings from the Department of Public Safety’s driver license program, and a carryover of flood-response money that came in under budget.
The presentation matters because it identifies near-term funding the Legislature could reallocate to other priorities without requesting new revenues, and it asks agencies to confirm whether they support or oppose specific changes before the committee acts.
The analysts reviewed line-by-line items across multiple agencies and flagged both small and larger opportunities. For the courts, they proposed moving $188,000 of general-fund support for court security to the courts’ court-security restricted fund, saying this would “free up” the general-fund amount for the committee…
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