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Your elected officers were very busy over the past 45 days. They passed a record-breaking $25 billion budget and hundreds of bills. Here’s a recap of some of the bigger bills that passed, failed and never got off the ground in the 2022 legislative session:
An emotional debate took place in the Utah State Senate on Thursday on homelessness and affordable housing.
A controversial homeless shelter bill passed the Senate espite concerns that it would strain existing homeless resource centers in Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake and Midvale. The bill would ask city leaders to propose plans for overflow shelter and, if the plans are insufficient, the state would flex capacity at existing shelters.
A proposal meant to incentivize cities to provide emergency homeless shelter space in the winter cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
Utah Senate approves city-negotiated overhaul of inland port board in bipartisan vote