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Utah's Securities Investor Education, Training, and Enforcement Fund — which is funded by civil penalties and fines collected from securities law violations — currently must transfer any balance over $500,000 at the end of each fiscal year into the state's General Fund. This bill would raise that cap to $1,000,000, allowing the fund to hold more money before any surplus is redirected elsewhere. The fund is used to pay for investor education programs, enforcement investigations and litigation, and awards to fraud reporters, and the bill also makes minor technical wording changes to the law without altering how the fund operates day to day.