PUBLIC EDUCATION

4 percent increase in the weighted pupil unit, the basic funding unit for public education.

$9.5 million in one-time money for textbooks, supplies and media centers in addition to the 4 percent of the WPU earmarked for that purpose.

$4 million to implement Leavitt's highly impacted schools program.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Enrollment growth fully funded at $7.6 million.

Urgent student support funded at $3.6 million.

Tuition increased at eight of the nine state campuses, costing students an extra $7.2 million.

HUMAN SERVICES

$1.29 million to tackle long-neglected waiting lists for services to people with disabilities, including respite and day care.

$2.9 million for a child-welfare triage "M*A*S*H" unit to deal with backlog of foster-care and protective-service cases.

Expanded the Single Parent Employment Demonstration welfare-reform project, but at only half the requested level.

BUILDING PROJECTS

$3.3 million remodeling at Weber State University's Val Browning Center.

Revenue bonds for a biology research building at the University of Utah, a human resource research center at Utah State University and a student center at the College of Eastern Utah.

$1.6 million to buy land for a satellite college campus in Davis County.

NATURAL RESOURCES

$5 habitat fee tacked on to hunting and fishing licenses.

$2 million for park rehabilitation.

$2.2 million to pay last year's firefighting bills.

TRANSPORTATION

$80 million transportation investment fund for highway improvements.

$1 million to replace the state airplane.

PUBLIC SAFETY

Money for three new Utah Highway Patrol troopers, nine dispatchers and two criminalists.

$250,000 to rent a helicopter for UHP.

Repairs at National Guard armories funded.

HEALTH

Funded second-dose measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations.

$300,000 to create network of Area Health Education Centers.

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Money for local public health computer network.

CORRECTIONS

Adult corrections received $5.1 million to open its pre-release center for inmates on their way out of prison.

Youth Corrections got $1.9 million to operate a privatized detention center in Salt Lake County, and $743,000 to operate four juvenile receiving centers.

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