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Subcommittee opens session with LFA base-budget briefing, sets 5% reduction work

Economic and Community Development Appropriations Subcommittee · January 21, 2026
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The Economic and Community Development Appropriations Subcommittee reviewed the base budget bill and a tentative schedule, and staff set a required 5% reductions process. Analysts said the subcommittee's general/income-fund allocation is about $288.5 million and the subcommittee's reduction target is $15.2 million.

SALT LAKE CITY ' The Economic and Community Development Appropriations Subcommittee opened its first meeting of the 2026 session on Jan. 21 with a Legislative Fiscal Analyst briefing that outlined the base budget, statutory timing and a required 5% reductions exercise.

"New session, new budget circumstances, it's all very exciting," LFA analyst Gary Syphus told members as he reviewed the base budget bill and the committee's schedule. Syphus said the base bill is largely an "untouched, clean"…

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