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Utah Federal Funds Receipts Amendment (2016)
| Utah Federal Funds Receipts Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic State and local government budgets, spending and finance | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
A Utah Federal Funds Receipts Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Utah as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have prohibited the state from receiving federal funds exceeding 40 percent of the state's total expenditures for that fiscal year.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article XIII, Utah Constitution
The proposed amendment would have added a Section 15 to Article XIII of the Utah Constitution. The following text would be added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
The amount of money the State receives from the federal government in any fiscal year may not exceed 40 percent of the State's total expenditures for that year.[2]
Support
The amendment was sponsored by Rep. Robert Spendlove (R-49).[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Utah Constitution
According to the Utah Constitution, a two-thirds vote is required in one legislative session of the Utah Legislature to qualify the amendment for the ballot.
The Utah Legislature's 2015 session ended on March 12, 2015, without the bill passing both chambers. State law gave legislators the option to reintroduce the bill during the 2016 legislative session, which began on January 25, 2016, and ran through March 10, 2016.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Utah Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 17," accessed March 6, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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