{"pk":46702,"title":"The Utah State Budget Report for FY 14-15","subtitle":null,"abstract":"During the 2014 legislative session, Utah legislators accentuated the need for long-term thinking on the budget. The legislature required 15-year revenue trend forecasting, held the institutions first joint long-term planning conference, and spent the first week of their limited session solely on base budget review.  In the end, the session saw a near-record 486 bills pass and be signed into law, the budget balanced, and a $13.5 billion budget for the 2015 fiscal year, an increase of 5% over the FY2014 budget.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Western State Budget Report, Utah, Utah Legislature, fiscal policy, taxes"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zt6p6b8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Robinson","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Utah","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ball","name_suffix":"","institution":"Office of the Utah Legislative Fiscal Analyst","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Tucker","middle_name":"","last_name":"Samuelsen","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Utah","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-02-12T18:12:43-05:00","date_accepted":"2016-02-12T18:12:43-05:00","date_published":"2015-12-31T19:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46702/galley/35348/download/"}]}