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Show Final budget approved as legislature adjourns and increase membership to 29 Saturday night the house amended the senate bill and then sent it back to the senate. The senate disagreed with the house's revised bill, which would leave the decision to local committees to specify boundaries in multi-senator multi-senator and multi-representative districts. The vote in the senate was 16-12 rejecting the house proposal. Nearly all of the voting on these issues followed strong party lines. It was Democrats versus Republicans all the way. The approved budget included nearly $1.5 million more for higher education than what Governor Rampton had suggested. The state water resources revolving fund received about $1 million more than the governor had recommended. Another important decision specifies that resident tuition cannot be increased at state universities n ,Vt' Should any state ins resident tuition, stipulation that funcJin ' school be stopped. Another action in ,i i def?!ed a resolution which Wo : allowed the voters J whether the legislature ' authority to design, " governing body f0r eduation This means the will decide the issue. The senate passed a k Propriating $50,000 to Bait for concerts and the hous-the hous-the same measure by j' vote. Bill SB17, sponsored Warren Pugh, R-Salt l& '." Sen. Merrill Jenkins, allows Ballet West to - ' minimum of 48 concerts it- ' schools during the next year. t The Utah State Legislature goes into special session Monday in an effort to resolve the controversial, issue of reapportionment. The session will continue as long as is necessary to reach an agreement on the issue. The legislature worked late into the night Saturday in an unsuccessful un-successful effort to close the 39th session. It approved a total budget of $597,725,220 or approximately ap-proximately $4.3 million more than the governor's overall recommendation. rec-ommendation. The legislature also reapportioned the state school board, from the original nine members to 11. Preventing closing of the session was the controversial issue of reapportionment of the state legislature. Friday the house of representatives voted to reapportion reap-portion itself from 69 members to 67 members. Saturday the senate voted 16-12 to reapportion itself |