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How Utah lawmakers decided spend $1.6 billion in federal COVID-19 funds


House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, hugs Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Murray, after Kwan’s resolution honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander communities passed unanimously in the House during a special session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Though controversy over critical race theory sucked most of the oxygen out of the Utah Legislature’s special session on Wednesday, lawmakers acted on a host of other bills including changes to the budget to accept over $1.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
In the special session called by Gov. Spencer Cox to deal with the budget and pass 22 bills including one to ban school mask requirements this fall except for special circumstances the Utah Legislature approved legislation to initially spend only $571 million of the federal funds funneled to the state by the American Rescue Plan Act, leaving the rest to be spent after more specifics ....

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What Utah lawmakers decided to do with $1.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds


SALT LAKE CITY Though controversy over critical race theory sucked most of the oxygen out of the Utah Legislature s special session on Wednesday, lawmakers acted on a host of other bills including changes to the budget to accept over $1.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
In the special session called by Gov. Spencer Cox to deal with the budget and pass 22 bills including one to ban school mask requirements this fall except for special circumstances the Utah Legislature approved legislation to initially spend only $571 million of the federal funds funneled to the state by the American Rescue Plan Act, leaving the rest to be spent after more specifics can be ironed out in the 2022 general session in January. ....

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Lawmakers earmark $75 million for state 'bank' to fund Utah Inland Port projects


SALT LAKE CITY With just one week of the state Legislature s 2021 session to go, lawmakers dropped a big bill that could have major implications for the Utah Inland Port Authority.
House lawmakers, while putting final touches on the state budget, announced Friday a big chunk of cash $75 million would be set aside in a newly created state bank that could be used to fund loans for the port authority.
SB243 creates what House Majority Leader Francis Gibson, R-Mapleton, called infrastructure banks that could stash state money to be used as loans for future projects. The bill would also create a loan fund for the Point of the Mountain area, which is slated for massive development when the Utah State Prison is relocated, but Gibson said the $75 million set aside this year would be specifically for the Utah Inland Port Authority project areas. ....

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Lots of extra cash helped ease the process in putting together this year's Utah state budget and the final package will include a $100 million tax cut.


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Utah legislative leaders said the process of setting next year’s $21.7 billion budget was one of the easiest they’ve ever experienced. Having more than $1.5 billion in extra money to spend can help clear any roadblocks that pop up.
“This is probably the smoothest budgeting process I’ve seen in my nearly decade of doing budget negotiations with the Senate,” House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, told reporters Friday.
Last year, the unfolding coronavirus pandemic forced legislators to cut nearly $1 billion from the budget they had approved just a few months earlier. But, the economic damage from COVID-19 was not nearly as bad as they predicted. ....

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