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Proposed constitutional amendment would increase money lawmakers can spend and cut in a special session
Lawmakers say current rules tied their hands too much when adjusting the budget during the pandemic.
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Utah lawmakers are pushing a constitutional amendment that would allow them to spend, and cut more money from the budget during a special session. This March 14, 2019, file photo shows the Utah House in session.
| March 1, 2021, 10:48 p.m.
Legislators want to ask Utah voters to loosen their purse strings a little under a proposed constitutional amendment designed to tweak the rules for some special legislative sessions.
After nearly two hours of discussion and public testimony, a Senate committee voted 6-1 Monday to support the latest version of HB278, legislation that would set in motion a process to change the name of Dixie State University.
The refusal by Utah Senate Republicans to sit on the Dixie State name change bill has led to an unexpected impasse in the final days of the 2021 Utah Legislature.