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Show JUTAH LEGISLATURE STEPS ON GAS TO FINISH BUSINESS BY DEADLINE Utah's Legislature this week was stepping on the gas in order to compete all essential legislation legisla-tion before time runs out on March 9. The general appropriations bill, appropriating n funds to institutions, in-stitutions, departments, and agencies for the next biennium was introduced in the House of Representatives. The key school financing bill (HB 62) was shuttled into a joint conference committee for negotiation nego-tiation of differences between House and Senate versions of the measure. A proposed state building will encounter some sharp attacks in the Joint Appropriations Committee Com-mittee and another session was to be held before it is put in the form for introduction. General fund appropriations in the money bill (HB 28) added up to $72,147,000 compared to the- approximately $73,500,000 recommended by Gov. Clyde. But the prospect is that the committee appropriations and the governor's budget will be about equal by the time the odds and ends are taken care of. The appropriations bill, for example, did not carry an item of about $400,000 to cover general fund cost of a new public employees retirement bill which has been passed by the House. Other new and overlooked items will have to be bundled up in a supplement appropriation bill. |
