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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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Legislative roundup: Emergency powers, transgender athletes, teaching sex consent, rioters, mascots, guns


SALT LAKE CITY State lawmakers are considering ways to limit the governor s power in an emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening their own hand in declaring when an emergency is over.
The Utah Legislature is also in a brewing firestorm over transgender rights as it wraps up its fifth week of meetings that included the House passing a ban on transgender athletes competing in girls sports in the K-12 public school system.
Vickers bill would limit the duration of a public health order to 30 days. It would also only allow the Legislature to extend or terminate an order and would give lawmakers the power to end an emergency earlier than that 30-day time period. The bill would also ban restrictions on religious gatherings and prohibits a local health department from issuing a restriction without the approval of the county executive, such as the county mayor or commission. ....

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