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Blaming broken promises for Great Salt Lake, lawmaker threatens to block homeless campus
One of the Utah House’s top Republican lawmakers dropped a surprise bill on Monday that he said is his response to frustrations over broken promises to create a larger buffer zone around the Great Salt Lake. House Majority Leader Casey Snider, R-Paradise, is sponsoring HB523. If approved by the Utah Legislature, it would prohibit the Utah Office of Homeless Services from spending any money to “establish a large-scale, low-barrier shelter” that’s 300 beds or bigger. It would also repeal a provision of state law he sponsored last year that granted the state eminent ...