All Budget Highlights Posts

Power of PIDs: A Look at Utah’s Public Infrastructure Districts

Public Infrastructure Districts (PIDs) are limited purpose local government entities which can be created by cities, counties or other political subdivisions to facilitate the development...
August 15, 2025

Oh, SNAP! How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Impacts Utah’s Nutrition Assistance Budget

The recently federally enacted "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (H.R. 1) is set to create fiscal impacts for the state of Utah and could lead...
August 8, 2025

Foundational Funding: The Rebuilding of Higher Education Capital Requests

As students and faculty return to campuses across Utah, a quiet revolution is underway in how the state funds and builds its higher education facilities....
August 1, 2025

Pioneering Prosperity: Utah’s Framework for Stabilizing Education Funding

While our Grandma's legendary two-year supply of emergency rations might be more rice and beans than legislative genius, this Pioneer Day we're digging into a...
July 24, 2025

Fireproof Funding: Recent Changes in Utah’s Wildfire Budget

In Utah—and the rest of the western United States—footing the bill for wildfire prevention, suppression, and mitigation is a persistently hot topic. The challenge of...
July 11, 2025

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:...
July 4, 2025

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...
June 20, 2025

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...
May 30, 2025

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...
May 23, 2025

Lost in the Sauce: the Messy Business of Tariffs

As discussions surrounding tariffs circulate through the news, it is important to understand what they are and how they work. Tariffs are taxes that are...
May 16, 2025

From the Ground Up: Affordable Housing Investments and Initiatives

According to the Federal Reserve, in 2015 the average home value in Utah was just over $230,000. Ten years later, the average home value has...
May 2, 2025

On the Move: Updates to Sales Tax Designated for Transportation

During the 2025 General Session, the Legislature passed three major bills that impacted the state’s budget for transportation and infrastructure: S.B. 195, “Transportation Amendments” S.B....
April 25, 2025