H.B. 1 Public Education Base Budget Amendments

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What the bill does

This bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026 and appropriates funds for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027.

Hearings and debates

• Jan 26, 2026 House floor debate (day 7)▶ Watch
  Transcript (3 turns)

  1. Speaker (presiding)20:36

     House bill one, public education base Budget amendments by Representative Whyte. Rep Representative Whyte.

  2. Rep. Stephen L. Whyte20:50

     Thank you Mr. Speaker. Motion to circle

  3. Speaker (presiding)20:52

     Motions order will go and place the motion. Motion before is the house circle HB one. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All that Motion passes and HB one has been circled. Madam Reading Clerk

• Jan 28, 2026 House floor debate (day 9)▶ Watch
  Transcript (13 turns)

  1. Speaker (presiding)15:44

     Thank you Representative Whyte. Uh, that motion is order. Go and place the motion. Motion before the house uncer HB one. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Roll. That motion passes. The bill has been encircled and before the body for its consideration. Representative Whyte.

  2. Rep. Stephen L. Whyte15:59

     Thank you Mr. Speaker. HB one is a very important bill for the state of Utah because this is the public education based budget bill that funds the operating funds for public schools throughout the state. This bill appropriates more than $8.8 billion in supporting the operator operations and capital budgets in public education. There are some important aspects of this for everybody's awareness. It also, this bill increases the WPU value by 4.2% at a cost of approximately additional $191.4 million of ongoing funds. This will set the WPU value for fiscal year 2027 to $4,870, which is an increase from this last year of $4,674. In addition to the WPU increase for this next year, it also appropriates $253 million from the public education economic stabilization restricted account for several very important purposes. In this amount, it includes $78.3 million for educational professional time, meaning increasing the professional time that our educators will receive. It also in, uh, provides funding 65 million for the Catalyst Center grant program, $12.4 million for stipends for future educators grants programs. It'll also provide $8.8 million of additional funding for teacher supplies and materials. This adds to the four point, uh, the 5.5 million ongoing for a total of 14.3 million for teacher supplies and materials. It also increases 6.5 million for charter school, local replacement for additional growth, and also 5 million for the rural school athletic facilities grants. Now, this public education budget bill are also unique because they provide some statutory changes to align with statutory language as well with Mr. Speaker, I invite the, the body to vote in support of this important funding bill to continue the success for our students and teachers and everyone within kindergarten through 12th education in the state. Thank you Mr. Speaker.

  3. Speaker (presiding)18:25

     Thank you Representative Whyte discussion to the bill Representative Hansen.

  4. Rep. Leah Hansen18:33

     Thank you Mr. Speaker. Will the sponsor yield to a question?

  5. Speaker (presiding)18:36

     Representative Whyte, will you yield to a question? Yes, Mr. Speaker? Yes.

  6. Rep. Leah Hansen18:39

     Representative Hansen. Thank you Mr. Speaker line 2 0 4 white. Why from 75% to 40% to determine emergency funding. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

  7. Rep. Stephen L. Whyte18:56

     I'm just pulling up that line here. Mr. Speaker, did you say line 2 0 2 0 4? Yes. Or was it 2 0 5? I can't, Let's see here. Yeah. Thank you. So that is, it's my understanding, it's adjusting the threshold of the impact that will go into the different schools.

  8. Speaker (presiding)19:32

     Okay. Thank you. Thank you Representative Hansen. Further discussion to the bill. Seeing none. Back to you, Representative Whyte for summation.

  9. Rep. Stephen L. Whyte19:40

     Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Appreciate everyone's consideration is education. This particular budget is one of the largest budgets in the state of Utah that shows the importance of education, the investments of students to our teachers to be able to help the rising generation be prepared for great future opportunities and successes. So thank you.

  10. Speaker (presiding)19:58

      Thank you. Representative Whyte Voting will now be open on HB one. See now president having voted voting is now closed. HB one passes this body with 71 yes votes and zero no votes will be sent to the Senate for its consideration.

  11. Speaker (presiding)21:02

      Representative Barlow,

  12. Rep. Jordan Barlow21:07

      Good morning Mr. Speaker.

  13. Speaker (presiding)21:11

      Thank you Representative Barlow. The motion before us is the House encircle HB five.

• Jan 29, 2026 Senate floor debate (day 10)▶ Watch
  Transcript (11 turns)

  1. Sen. Heidi Balderree16:42

     most expensive and second most expensive appropriation committee subcommittees, but today we'll talk about the public education based budget amendments, which provides most of the operating funding for our public schools. The Bill appropriates more than $8.8 billion to support operating in capital budgets and public education for fiscal year 2027, including $5 billion from state funds, including general education and uniform school funds. 936.7 million in state fund transfers to restricted accounts. 3.3 billion from other sources such as restricted revenues, local property tax revenue, federal funds and dedicated credits. And the bill also appropriates $1.1 billion in restricted fund and account transfers for fiscal year 2027, including over $1 billion from the state income tax or uniform school funds. It includes funding changes associated with the public education funding frameworks as required in statute and approved by the executive appropriations in December, including student enrollment growth. The net cost of 6.4 million one time FY 26 20 26 and a reduction of 12 and a half million ongoing in 2027. The enrollment is estimated to decline from 657,275 and fall of 2025 to a projected total of 643,673 in fall of 2026, which is down three 13,602 students for 2.07% entering the midpoint of a projected decade long decline in fall enrollment enrollment. The net enrollment growth cost increase includes reductions in weighted pupil unit cost and additional costs due to statutory formulas. These formulas include special education, education, salary adjustments, and charter school local replacement. Next inflationary adjustment. The bill increases the WPU value by 4.2% at a cost of approximately $191.4 million. Ongoing. It sets the WP value at 4,870 for fiscal year 2027, which is up from 4,674 in fiscal year 2026. It deposits into the public education economic stabilization account of $42.8 million ongoing for a total of 483.5 million for fiscal year 2027. It appropriates 253 million from the public education economic stabilization restricted account for the following purposes. All of the amounts are one-time funding $78.3 million for education professional time, which is an increase of up to 32 hours of additional time per educator. 77 million for enrollment growth. Hold harmless ongoing to one-time swap 65 million for the Catalyst Center grant program. 12.4 million for stipends for future educators grant program. 8.8 million for teacher supplies and materials. It adds to the already five and a half million ongoing for a new total of 14.3 million six and a half million for charter school. Local replacement for additional growth in fiscal year 2026 and 5 million for rural school athletic facilities grants. Public education budgets are unique because they often include statutory changes to align statutory language with appropriated funding and statutory distribution formulas. This year's bill makes technical amendments to certain statutes as follows. Updates the estimated revenue target and basic tax rate for fiscal year 2027. Amends the statutory provisions for career and technical education centers to address concerns that certain CTE centers do not qualify for state funding. And two more to go amend statutory provisions for emergency funding for schools to fix a problem with a statutory distribution formula created in house bill 42 and 2025 general section so that funds can be distributed to impacted schools. Lastly, it reorganizes the public education economic stabilization restricted account statute to include all the annual required expenditures in the same section. And with that, I conclude my presentation.

  2. President Adams (presiding)21:05

     Thank you for the presentation. But I'm gonna just, if I could before they leave us, 'cause they tried to leave us early yesterday, but I'd like to recognize you've got Ben Lyman, we've got, uh, Jonathan, uh, and, and Sean back on the back. Let's recognize our great staff. Uh, I I know they'll take off before the vote, but I, we have great, thank you Sean. Great staff we have and others who have done so much putting this budget together. So I'm gonna recognize Senator Weiler now.

  3. Sen. Todd Weiler21:32

     Thank you. Will the sponsor yield?

  4. President Adams (presiding)21:34

     Yes. Senator Balderree, will you yield? Go ahead. I will.

  5. Sen. Todd Weiler21:36

     So I, I missed that. Could you repeat all of that? Yep. Repeated. I'll withdraw the

  6. President Adams (presiding)21:42

     Question. We'll send you a memo. Senator, uh, thank you. Uh, other discussion to the bill? Senator McKay is not up. I don't think so. Uh, I'm gonna go back to you for a motion. Uh, please call the Question. Thank you.

  7. President Adams (presiding)21:54

     The question is under suspension, the rules shall house bill one pass. Roll call vote.

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  9. President Adams (presiding)22:56

     Aye. House bill one, having received 28 yay votes, zero nay votes, one being absent passes this body will be signed by the President and returned to the house for the signature of the speaker.

  10. President Adams (presiding)23:07

      I'm gonna go to Senator Escamilla for a quick personal proof. I'll come back to you. Senator, go ahead. Senator Es Thank

  11. Sen. Luz Escamilla23:13

      You Mr. President.

All votes

• 71-0-4House floor · House/ passed 3rd reading · Jan 28, 2026Roll call
• 28-0-1Senate floor · Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension · Jan 29, 2026Roll call

Tallies are yeas–nays–absent.