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Exclusive: How Utah leaders plan to spend billions of dollars in new COVID relief money
The cash is part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act passed by Congress in March
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton speaks in 2019. Stevenson is working to determine how federal coronavirus funds will be spent in Utah.
| April 26, 2021, 11:05 a.m.
Utah lawmakers are trying to figure out just how to spend more than $1.5 billion in federal money, which is set to arrive in a series of installments.
The cash comes from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act passed by Congress in March. Utah’s allocation is equal to roughly 15% of the state’s $22.7 billion budget for next year.
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What will lawmakers spend your tax dollars on? The first decisions on next year’s budget are coming later this week.
Legislators are sifting through hundreds of millions of dollars of appropriations requests.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Members of the House of Representatives recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the Utah Capitol in this Jan. 19, 2021, file photo.
| Feb. 10, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
The midpoint of the 2021 Utah Legislature is later this week, which means lawmakers are finalizing their priority spending lists for your tax dollars before the final budget is approved in the coming weeks.
Legislative leaders will vote on the appropriation requests later this week.
Though it s been floated as an idea for the 2021 session, legislative leaders aren t promising an across-the-board income tax rate cut this year, but they are aligned on reducing taxes in other ways.