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This annual budget bill adjusts state government funding for the current fiscal year (2025-2026) and sets initial funding levels for the upcoming fiscal year (2026-2027), covering hundreds of individual line items across nearly every state department, agency, and public college or university. It increases or decreases specific budget allocations—drawn from sources like the General Fund, Income Tax Fund, federal funds, and various dedicated fees—for areas ranging from prisons and courts to Medicaid services, state parks, and higher education, while also authorizing the fees certain agencies can charge and setting the internal rates state agencies pay each other for shared services such as technology, vehicles, and facilities. Because these are technical, itemized adjustments to spending already built into the budget rather than new programs or policy changes, the bill's effects are largely administrative, determining how much money each part of state government has available to operate and deliver services to Utahns over the next two years.