H.B. 311

1

APPROPRIATION FOR RURAL GROWTH
2 MANAGEMENT
3 1999 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Keele Johnson
6 AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS; APPROPRIATING S [ $250,000 ] $150,000 s TO
6a THE OFFICE
7 OF PLANNING AND BUDGET TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNOR'S 21ST CENTURY
8 COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE AND TO PROVIDE REGIONAL CIRCUIT-RIDER PLANNERS
9 TO ASSIST RURAL COUNTIES AND COMMUNITIES WITH PLANNING NEEDS;
10 PROVIDING THAT THE FUND BE NONLAPSING; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
11 DATE.
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Legislative intent.
14 The Legislature supports the objectives of the Governor's 21st Century Communities
15 Initiative of preparing rural areas of the state for population and visitor growth, creating new jobs,
16 reducing unemployment, diversifying rural economies, and protecting quality of life. It is the
17 intent of the Legislature in appropriating these funds to help meet the statewide public purpose of
18 assisting local government leaders to deal with the economic development, community and land
19 planning, technology, and growth concerns of local government through the Governor's 21st
20 Century Communities Initiative.
21 Section 2. Appropriation.
22 (1) Except as provided in H.B. 4, Appropriations Coordination Act, there is appropriated
23 from the General Fund for fiscal year 1999-2000, S [ $250,000 ] $150,000 s to the Office of Planning
23a and Budget
24 for purposes stated in Subsection (2).
25 (2) (a) The appropriated funds shall be used to:
26 (i) help meet the objectives of the Governor's 21st Century Communities Initiative;
27 (ii) provide local government officials with training and certification opportunities and

28 materials;
29 (iii) provide professional circuit-rider planners;
30 (iv) provide tools and expertise to assist with the planning, economic development, land
31 use, technology, and growth management concerns of local government;
32 (v) provide information exchange, research, data, and linkages between various
33 government entities, including local, state, and federal agencies, as well as between private and
34 nonprofit entities involved in providing services and information to local communities; and
35 (vi) provide for administration expenses, recognition and awards to communities, meeting
36 expenses of the Governor's Rural Partnership Board, and other administrative expenses relating
37 to meeting the objectives of the 21st Century Communities Initiative.
38 (b) The Office of Planning and Budget shall determine, in conjunction with the Governor's
39 Rural Partnership Board, the allocation of appropriated funds to best meet the purposes stated in
40 Subsection (2)(a).
41 (3) The money appropriated in Subsection (1) is nonlapsing.
42 Section 3. Effective date.
43 This act takes effect on July 1, 1999.




Legislative Review Note
as of 2-11-99 7:09 AM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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