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This resolution changes the internal rules governing how Utah's legislature handles the state budget process. Under current rules, the Executive Appropriations Committee — the small group of legislative leaders who make final budget decisions — finalizes the state budget without a formal requirement to report those decisions back to the smaller subcommittees that did the original budget work. If passed, this measure would require the Executive Appropriations Committee to report to each joint appropriations subcommittee any final budget decisions affecting that subcommittee's spending priorities, and would allow subcommittee chairs to call a meeting so members can vote on whether they support those final decisions, without needing special permission from the Senate President or House Speaker to hold that meeting.