Measure on the ballot in the 2022 Utah General Election in Utah.
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Get StartedShall the Utah Constitution be amended to change a provision relating to special sessions of the Utah Legislature that are convened by the president of the Utah Senate and speaker of the Utah House of Representatives: to increase the limit on the total amount of money the Legislature may appropriate during the session from an amount equal to 1% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year to an amount equal to 5% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year; and to exclude from that 5% limit: an appropriation of money that the state receives from the federal government to address a fiscal, public health, or other emergency or crisis; and an appropriation that decreases the amount of money previously authorized to be spent? If the amendment proposed by this joint resolution is approved by a majority of those voting on it at the next regular general election, the amendment shall take effect on January 1, 2023.
A "yes" vote on this measure supports amending the Utah Constitution to increase the limit on the total amount of money the Legislature may appropriate during a special legislative session from 1% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year to 5% that amount; and supports excluding from that 5% limit both an appropriation of money that the state receives from the federal government to address a fiscal, public health, or other emergency or crisis and an appropriation that decreases the amount of money previously authorized to be spent.
A "no" vote on this measure opposes amending the Utah Constitution to increase the limit on the total amount of money the Legislature may appropriate during a special legislative session from 1% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year to 5%. The 1% limit would remain in effect.
"This would be a taxpayer friendly amendment in that they would give them more flexibility in a dire emergency to cut the budget more than allowed." - Rusty Cannon, President of the Utah Taxpayers Association, in support of Constitutional Amendment A (Learn more)
"If the Legislature needs to allocate that kind of money, it should either do so in the regular session, or it should make the case to the governor to call a special session that allows it. But the super majority controlling the Legislature, in the short time it has had the power to call its own sessions, has already got a track record of misusing the power it has for purposes that voters did not approve. Why should that power be increased?" - Alan Wessman, United Utah Party candidate for Utah State House, in opposition to Constitutional Amendment A (Learn more)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to change a provision relating to special sessions of the Utah Legislature that are convened by the president of the Utah Senate and speaker of the Utah House of Representatives: to increase the limit on the total amount of money the Legislature may appropriate during the session from an amount equal to 1% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year to an amount equal to 5% of the total amount appropriated during the preceding fiscal year; and to exclude from that 5% limit: an appropriation of money that the state receives from the federal government to address a fiscal, public health, or other emergency or crisis; and an appropriation that decreases the amount of money previously authorized to be spent?
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