H.B. 414

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APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT LITIGATION
2 AGAINST CREATION OF ESCALANTE
3 MONUMENT
4 1998 GENERAL SESSION
5 STATE OF UTAH
6 Sponsor: Glenn Way
7 AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS; APPROPRIATING S [$250,000] $75,000 s TO THE h [OFFICE
8 OF PLANNING AND BUDGET ] SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS
8a ADMINISTRATION h FROM THE GENERAL FUND IN FISCAL YEAR 1998-99
9 FOR LEGAL COSTS INCURRED BY THE UTAH ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES h AND
9a THE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION h TO
10 OPPOSE THE GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT
11 DESIGNATION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
12 This act enacts uncodified material.
13 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
14 Section 1. Appropriation.
15 (1) Because the land and resources contained within the Grand Staircase - Escalante
16 National Monument are valuable to the people of the state, there is appropriated S [$250,000] $75,000 s to the
17 h [ Office of Planning and Budget ] SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS
17a ADMINISTRATION h from the General Fund in fiscal year 1998-99, to be disbursed h [ to ] EQUALLY
17b BETWEEN h
18 the Utah Association of Counties h AND THE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS
18a ADMINISTRATION h to be used to pay legal costs incurred by the Utah Association
19 of Counties h AND THE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION h to oppose
19a the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument designation.
20 (2) The money appropriated in Subsection (1) is nonlapsing.
21 Section 2. Effective date.
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Amend on 3_goldenrod February 27, 1998 22 This act takes effect on July 1, 1998.

lilac-February 13, 1998

Legislative Review Note
as of 2-6-98 12:20 PM

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

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

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