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After accounting for existing commitments, updated estimates leave Utah lawmakers with about $817 million in one-time funds and $410 million in ongoing money available to allocate in the remainder of the Utah Legislature’s 2023 general session.
The fiscal year 2023 budget makes big investments in education, infrastructure, and water preservation.
The latest Utah news for Friday evening, Feb. 18, 2022.
But there's a catch. And that's putting pressure on the Salt Lake City School District to provide options for in-person learning in all its schools by Jan. 19. In its vote to recommend the Utah Legislature appropriate $121 million to a one-time "COVID-19 educator assistance stipend" — $1,500 for teachers and $1,000 for school staff — the Executive Appropriations Committee included a last-minute tweak to require the payment only goes to teachers offering in-person learning or some combination of in-person and virtual learning before Jan. 19, 2021. That language proposed by House Speaker Br...
A Utah legislative committee approved $121 million for one-time teacher bonuses. Utah teachers and support staff would receive a one-time bonus as a thank you for working during the COVID-19 pandemic, under a proposal passed Wednesday by the state Legislature’s Executive Appropriations Committee. Teachers would get a $1,500 stipend, while staff would get $1,000. “Our teachers ... are on the front lines right now in the classroom and the staff in these schools [are] dealing with the disruption, dealing with the uncertainty and the risk,” said House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville. “...