SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers have defused a potential divide with the governor’s office on the expansion of Medicaid to as many as 130,500 low-income Utahns.
The Senate pulled a controversial bill, HB 391, from the rules committee early Wednesday night and unanimously approved the heavily amended legislation, taking away language challenging the governor to turn down the federal offer to expand the program.
Later in the evening, the House voted 51-23 to concur on the revised bill after 10 p.m.
The hot rhetoric against the federal program was taken out of the final version headed to the governor’s desk.









