Budget

Liberating the Ledger: Increasing Transparency in Higher Education Budgets

In the world of higher education budgets, funding takes one of three forms: State Appropriations: consisting primarily of General and Income Tax Fund; Tuition Revenues: paid by students for instruction services; and Institutional Funds:...read more

Win-Win: An Overview of Districts Centered on Sports

Recently, the Legislature has been active in the expansion or creation of designated areas which utilize funding mechanisms such as taxing authority, redirected revenue, and bonding capacity to achieve public purposes for a broad audience of Utah...read more

Don’t Just Settle: Leveraging Opioid Funds for Lasting Impact

The 2025 General Session continued the Legislature’s work in thoughtfully utilizing the Opioid Settlement payments to help Utah’s citizens impacted by the opioid epidemic, including the growth of fentanyl use. As a reminder, in 2021, nationwide...read more

Never Gonna Give BOTSU Up

The Legislative Fiscal Analyst's (LFA) annual budget report for the State of Utah dates all the way back to the 1960s. That means that for the last 60 years we've provided a breakdown of the state's budgetary acts to help you find the answers to...read more

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