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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 spending without a formal requirement to report those decisions back to the smaller subcommittees that did the original budget work. This resolution requires the Executive Appropriations Committee to inform each joint appropriations subcommittee of any final budget decisions that affect that subcommittee's spending priorities, and allows 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 do so.