The Economic and Community Development Appropriations Subcommittee met Feb. 7 and processed RFA presentations, then considered and approved the committee’s procedural budget motions and a final prioritization list.

Key procedural motions (each motion appears below) were considered and approved by voice vote without recorded roll-call tallies in the meeting transcript: approval of minutes, federal funds adjustments, agency transfer technical corrections, non-state fund requests, additional intent language, fee items, the chair’s reallocation proposal, DWS budget motions, and TANF allocations proposed by the chairs. The transcript shows each of those motions passed (committee members responded "aye" on voice votes).

The committee then addressed ranking and prioritization. During deliberations, Senator Owens offered a substitute motion to lift one RFA (Utah CDC operations, identified in the packet as item 27) to a higher position; the committee approved that adjustment unanimously. Several other attempts to move individual RFAs were considered and failed on recorded voice votes. After substitute motions and discussion, the committee adopted the chair’s proposed priority list as adjusted in the meeting and forwarded that list to the Executive Appropriations Committee for consideration.

The committee also approved specific DWS budget motions and a proposed TANF expenditure sheet (the chairs’ proposed TANF allocations were discussed earlier and several items that qualified were moved into TANF funding). The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn.

Recorded formal items and outcomes visible in the transcript (motions approved or failed during the Feb. 7 session):
- Approval of minutes (passed)
- Approve FY2025–FY2026 federal funds (passed)
- Approve agency transfer technical corrections (passed)
- Approve non-state fund requests (passed)
- Approve additional intent language (passed)
- Approve fees (passed)
- Approve chair’s reallocation proposal (passed)
- Prioritization list: substitute motion to lift Utah CDC operations RFA (item 27) to position 9 (passed)
- Multiple substitute motions to change rank order (several failed by voice vote)
- Adopt chair’s priority list as adjusted (passed)
- Approve DWS budget motions (passed)
- Approve TANF expenditures and intent language (passed)
- Motion to adjourn (passed)

Votes were conducted by voice and the transcript does not provide roll-call vote tallies for each motion. The committee forwarded its prioritized RFA list and budget motions to EAC (Executive Appropriations Committee) for final consideration.