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This annual budget bill would adjust state spending for the current fiscal year (2025–2026) and the upcoming fiscal year (2026–2027), making hundreds of small increases and decreases across state agencies, courts, public schools, and universities to reflect the costs of implementing other bills passed this session and to fund various one-time and ongoing needs. Funding changes touch a wide range of areas, including courts and law enforcement, Medicaid and health services, homeless services, higher education operating budgets, election administration, and natural resources programs such as Great Salt Lake preservation efforts. The bill also directs how certain unspent funds from previous years may be carried forward and used for specific purposes, such as victim support technology, cemetery acquisitions, facility repairs, and grants to organizations like Utah Tech Week and Friends of the Children-Utah. Because it funds the implementation of dozens of other bills passed in the 2026 session, its practical effects are spread across nearly every part of state government rather than concentrated in one policy area.