Priority Bills
HB 285: Labor Union Amendments
Sponsor: J. Teuscher, This bill amends provisions governing public employers and labor organizations. Status: Failed in House , UEA Contact: Chase Clyde / Sara Jones
HB 221: Stipends for Future Educators
Sponsor: K. Peterson, This bill creates the Stipends for Future Educators Grant Program. Status: Passed House and Senate UEA Contact: Sara Jones
| Bill Number | Bill Title | Bill Sponsor | UEA Contact | Brief Description of Bill | UEA Position | Status/Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 001 Sub 1 | Public Education Base Budget Amendments | S. Pulsipher | Jay Blain | This bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, and appropriates funds for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 011 Sub 2 | Water Efficient Landscaping Requirements | D. Owens | Chase Clyde | This bill defines terms; restricts the use of lawn or turf by certain governmental entities; and makes technical changes. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 014 | School Threat Penalty Amendments | R. Wilcox | Jay Blain | This bill addresses threatening or falsely reporting an emergency at a school. | No Position | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 029 Sub 2 | Sensitive Material Review Amendments | K. Ivory | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions regarding the evaluation of instructional material to identify and remove pornographic or indecent material. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 045 | Safeut and School Safety Commission Amendments | S. Eliason | Sara Jones | This bill extends the repeal date for the SafeUT and School Safety Commission. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 060 | Phased Retirement Extension | C. Acton | Jay Blain | This bill modifies provisions related to phased retirement | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 082 | Public Education Program Modifications | C. Pierucci | Sara Jones | This bill amends and makes technical and conforming changes to certain provisions of the Utah Code regarding public education. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 084 Sub 5 | School Safety Amendments | R. Wilcox | Sara Jones | This bill establishes a system for school safety incidents. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate/ Concerns with school guardian program |
| HB 092 | Voting Amendments | K. Birkeland | Chase Clyde | This bill modifies provisions relating to mailed ballots. | Oppose | Never Heard |
| HB 103 | Salary Supplement for School Speech-language Pathologists and Audiologists | D. Johnson | Jay Blain | This bill makes certain speech-language pathologists and audiologists eligible for the Teacher Salary Supplement Program. | Support | Never Heard in Senate |
| HB 105 Sub 2 | Tax Credit for Educator Expenses | K. Birkeland | Jay Blain | This bill enacts an income tax credit for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by an educator. | Support | Passed House and Senate/ Education stabilization account should NOT be used for ongoing funding priorities |
| HB 111 | Employment Training Requirement Limitations | T. Jimenez | Sara Jones | This bill prohibits, for purposes of employment discrimination, certain training or other requirements that compel or require adherence to or belief in certain concepts. | No Position | Failed in Senate Committee |
| HB 112 | Sex Education Instruction Amendments | T. Jimenez | Chase Clyde | This bill removes human sexuality from the definition of sex education instruction. | Oppose | Never Heard in Senate |
| HB 119 Sub 2 | School Employee Firearm Possession Amendments | T. Jimenez | Chase Clyde | This bill creates a program regarding the possession of a firearm by a school employee. | Local Issue | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 121 Sub 2 | Educator Background Check Amendments | T. Lee | Chase Clyde | This bill prohibits a Local Education Agency from collecting background check fees from licensed employees and non-licensed substitute teachers. | Support w/comments | Passed House and Senate/ Don't pass costs on to LEAs |
| HB 136 | Social Security Tax Amendments | W. Brooks | Jay Blain | This bill modifies the individual income tax credit for social security benefits. | Support | Never Heard |
| HB 149 | Earned Income Tax Credit Amendments | M. Judkins | Jay Blain | This bill makes the earned income tax credit refundable | Support | Failed in Committee |
| HB 153 Sub 3 | Child Tax Credit Modifications | S. Pulsipher | Jay Blain | This bill modifies the child tax credit. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 161 Sub 1 | School Board Amendments | R. Shipp | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses actions of a school district that may be subject to a referendum. | Watch | Passed House Failed in Senate Committee |
| HB 167 Sub 1 | Education Innovation Program Amendments | D. Welton | Jay Blain | This bill amends certain provisions of the Education Innovation Program and requires the director of ULEAD to market the program to educators. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 172 Sub 3 | Immigrant Student Athlete Participation Amendments | J. Teuscher | Chase Clyde | This bill provides that an athletic association may collect other certain documentation for a student that is homeless or not a United States citizen that confirms the student's date of birth and sex. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 173 Sub 1 | Local School Board Amendments | C. Pierucci | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses actions of a school district that may be subject to a referendum. | Oppose | Passed House never heard in Senate Committee |
| HB 182 Sub 5 | Student Survey Amendments | K. Lisonbee | Sara Jones | This bill requires parental consent for any non-academic survey given to a student. | No Position | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 183 | Income Tax Reduction | K. Christofferson | Jay Blain | This bill modifies income tax provisions. | Oppose | Never Heard |
| HB 185 | Primary Ballot Requirements | J. Teuscher | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses the nomination for an elective office of a member of a qualified political party. | Oppose | Never Heard |
| HB 192 Sub 3 | Local Education Agency Employee Paid Leave | M. Ballard | Chase Clyde | This bill creates a grant program for a local education agency (LEA) that has a parental leave policy which meets certain criteria. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 208 Sub 2 | Teacher Licensure Amendments | N. Thurston | Sara Jones | This bill addresses changes in teacher licensure requirements. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 221 | Stipends for Future Educators | K. Peterson | Sara Jones | This bill creates the Stipends for Future Educators Grant Program. | Support | Priority |
| HB 251 | Postretirement Reemployment Restrictions Amendments | M. Gwynn | Jay Blain | This bill modifies provisions governing postretirement reemployment. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 257 Sub 5 | Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities | K. Birkeland | Chase Clyde | This bill establishes a standard regarding distinctions on the basis of sex and applies the standard in certain facilities and opportunities where designations on the basis of sex address individual privacy, bullying, and women's opportunities. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate signed by Governor Cox |
| HB 261 | Equal Opportunity Initiatives | K. Hall | Sara Jones | This bill prohibits an institution of higher education, the public education system, and a governmental employer from taking certain actions and engaging in discriminatory practices. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate signed by Governor Cox |
| HB 262 Sub 1 | School and Institutional Trust Lands Amendments | C. Snider | Jay Blain | This bill makes changes relating to the State Institutional Trust Lands Management Act. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 263 | Statewide Online Education Program Funding Amendments | D. Johnson | Jay Blain | This bill provides rulemaking authority to the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) for Statewide Online Education Program (the program) funding. | Support | Passed House never heard in Senate Committee |
| HB 264 | Health Education Amendments | C. Moss | Chase Clyde | This bill amends provisions related to health education. | Support | Never Heard |
| HB 269 Sub 1 | Public School History Curricula Amendments | M. Petersen | Sara Jones | This bill adds the "Ten Commandments" and the Magna Carta to a list of historical documents and principles that school curricula and activities may include for a thorough study. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 285 | Labor Union Amendments | J. Teuscher | Sara Jones/Chase Clyde | This bill amends provisions governing public employers and labor organizations. | Oppose | Priority |
| HB 287 | Advanced Degree Scholarship Program | C. Moss | Sara Jones | This bill enacts an advanced degree scholarship program. | Support | Held in Committee |
| HB 290 | Ranked Choice Voting Amendments | K. Hall | Chase Clyde | This bill changes the repeal date of the Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project. | Oppose | Passed House Failed in Senate |
| HB 294 | Election Code Amendments | R. Ward | Chase Clyde | This bill amends provisions of the Election Code to provide an open, top-two political primary system in the state. | Support | Never Heard |
| HB 296 | Reading Disability Amendments | S. Pulsipher | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions for benchmark assessments in reading. | No Position | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 301 Sub 2 | Charter School Accountability Amendments | K. Lisonbee | Jay Blain | This bill amends provisions of the charter school code. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 303 | School Curriculum Requirements | J. Stenquist | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions that prohibit school officials and employees from endorsing, promoting, or disparaging certain beliefs or viewpoints. | Oppose | Failed in House |
| HB 331 Sub 2 | School and Classroom Amendments | D. Welton | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses school enrollment through kindergarten enrollment requirements and certain notices to a school regarding students taken into custody. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 339 | School Community Council Amendments | J. Moss | Jay Blain | This bill grants the State Board of Education certain rulemaking authority regarding school community councils for which there are insufficient members to fill certain positions. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 341 Sub 1 | School Closure Amendments | B. Brammer | Jay Blain | This bill amends processes for school closures or school boundary changes. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 347 Sub 3 | Educational Rights Amendments | R. Ward | Jay Blain | This bill: requires an LEA provide an educational environment that is safe for all students and staff; requires an LEA to ensure an educational environment has minimal disruptions; and makes technical changes. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 371 | Primary Election Amendments | J. Teuscher | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses primary elections. | Watch | Never Heard |
| HB 400 | Student Testing Amendments | J. Briscoe | Sara Jones | This bill requires certain approved entities who participate in state funded scholarship programs to administer certain student assessments adopted by the State Board of Education. | Support | Never Heard |
| HB 413 Sub 1 | Student Mental Health Amendments | S. Eliason | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions related to the student mental health screening program. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 415 Sub 2 | School Fees Amendments | M. Strong | Jay Blain | This bill amends and enacts provisions related to elementary and secondary school fees. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 417 | School Materials Amendments | K. Ivory | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions regarding student access to sensitive material within the public education system. | Oppose | Never Heard/ Criminalizes educators for instructional materials |
| HB 418 | Student Offender Reintegration Amendments | A. Matthews | Jay Blain | This bill enacts provisions related to a student who has committed a violent or sexual crime. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 420 | School Code of Conduct Protections | M. MacPherson | Jay Blain | This bill codifies a code of conduct for public educators. | Watch | Failed in Senate Committee |
| HB 431 Sub 2 | Teacher Retention | C. Pierucci | Sara Jones | This bill creates multiple programs to support teacher retention efforts. | Watch | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 455 | Education Industry Employee Privacy | T. Lee | Jay Blain | This bill provides for the personal privacy of local education agency employees. | Never Heard in House | |
| HB 460 Sub 3 | Government Employee Conscience Protection Amendments | M. Petersen | Chase Clyde | This bill addresses required accommodations for government employees in certain circumstances. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 468 | Student Health Amendments | R. Lesser | Chase Clyde | This bill allows employees of a local education agency to volunteer to administer certain adrenal insufficiency medication within a public school. | Passed House and Senate | |
| HB 473 | School Transit Amendments | J. Briscoe | Chase Clyde | This bill creates the Transit Access Pass for Students pilot grant program (the program). | Support | Failed in Committee |
| HB 475 Sub 1 | School Prescription Amendments | M. Strong | Chase Clyde | This bill modifies provisions related to certain prescription drugs and schools. | Passed House and Senate | |
| HB 477 Sub 1 | Criminal Investigations of School Employees | K. Birkeland | Jay Blain | This bill requires certain administrative leave for school employees who are the subject of a criminal investigation. | Oppose | Failed in Senate |
| HB 482 | Utah Retirement Systems Appeals Amendments | B. King | Jay Blain | This bill amends the options for obtaining judicial review of a decision by the Utah State Retirement Board. | Never Heard | |
| HB 485 | Special Education Amendments | M. Judkins | Jay Blain | This bill establishes a grant program to support co-teaching models for special education students. | Support | Passed House Never heard in Senate |
| HB 489 | Party Affiliation Disclosure Amendments | C. Acton | Chase Clyde | This bill permits party affiliation to appear on the ballot next to the name of certain nonpartisan candidates. | Oppose | Not Considered |
| HB 493 | Concurrent Enrollment Participation Amendments | R. Wilcox | Jay Blain | This bill amends provisions of the concurrent enrollment program. | Passed House and Senate | |
| HB 498 | Firearm Safety in Schools | B. Garner | Chase Clyde | This bill creates a pilot program to provide a firearm safety course in public school. | Local Issue | Never Heard |
| HB 499 Sub 1 | Education Reporting Amendments | S. Pulsipher | Sara Jones | This bill makes changes regarding training and reporting requirements for LEAs. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 512 | Minimum Basic Tax Rate Reduction | W. Brooks | Jay Blain | This bill amends provisions related to the minimum basic tax rate that funds public education. | Oppose | Never heard |
| HB 514 | School Chaplain Amendments | K. Stratton | Sara Jones | This bill allows an LEA to permit a volunteer chaplain at a school. | Oppose | Passed House Failed in Senate |
| HB 517 Sub 1 | Half-day Kindergarten Amendments | T. Lee | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions regarding half-day kindergarten to ensure that a student attending half-day kindergarten receives instruction in all of the kindergarten core competencies. | Passed House and Senate | |
| HB 521 | Class Size Reduction Amendments | C. Moss | Jay Blain | This bill makes changes to the allocation of an existing appropriation for class size reduction. | Support | Failed in Committee |
| HB 527 | Public Employee Gender-specific Language Requirements | T. Jimenez | Chase Clyde | This bill prohibits certain employment action against a public employee. | Not Considered | |
| HB 529 Sub 2 | Utah Fits All Scholarship Program Amendments | C. Pierucci | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions regarding the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program. | Oppose | Passed House and Senate |
| HB 533 | Small School District Scale of Operations Formula | K. Peterson | Jay Blain | This bill amends the formula for necessarily existent small schools funding. | Not Considered in House | |
| HB 555 | School Policy Amendments | J. Briscoe | Sara Jones | This bill adds provisions related to educational opportunity. | Never Heard | |
| HB 583 | Student Access to Books | B. King | Sara Jones | This bill amends provisions regarding sensitive materials to provide broad access to materials. | Never Heard | |
| HJR 007 | Joint Resolution Condemning Abusive Coaching Practices | S. Hayes | Sara Jones | This resolution condemns abusive coaching practices in Utah schools. | Support | Passed House and Senate |
| HJR 014 | Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution - Statewide Initiatives | J. Kyle | Chase Clyde | This joint resolution of the Legislature proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to modify a provision relating to statewide initiatives. | Oppose | Passed House Failed in Senate |
| HJR 025 Sub 1 | Joint Resolution for the Return of the Legislature Back to School Program | M. Wheatley | Sara Jones | This resolution encourages legislators to visit students in classrooms to teach the students about the legislative process. | Support | Passed House never heard in Senate |
| SB 013 Sub 2 | Education Entity Amendments | L. Fillmore | Jay Blain | This bill provides a home-based education entity and micro-education entity with certain similar duties, requirements, waivers, and rights as private and charter schools. | No Position | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 044 Sub 1 | Alternative Education Scholarship Combination | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones | This bill combines the Carson Smith Scholarship and Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Programs. | Oppose | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 052 | Educator Salary Amendments | E. Vickers | Jay Blain | This bill amends educator salary adjustments and the Teacher Salary Supplemental Program to include regional education service agencies. | Support | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 064 | Effective Teachers in High Poverty Schools Incentive Program Amendments | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones | This bill requires the state board of education to notify each qualifying teacher of potential eligibility in the program. | No Position | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 065 | Online Student Funding Amendments | L. Fillmore | Jay Blain | This bill requires the exclusion of a fully online student from an local education agency's (LEA) capital outlay funding formulas. | Support | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 068 | Teacher Evaluation Amendments | K. Riebe | Sara Jones | This bill amends the educator evaluation frequency to include a biennial option. | Support | Not Considered |
| SB 069 | Income Tax Amendments | C. Wilson | Jay Blain | This bill modifies income tax provisions. | Oppose | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 080 | Public Education Trust Fund Amendments | K. Riebe | Jay Blain | This bill creates the Public Education Trust Fund. | No Position | Held in Committee |
| SB 092 | Student Communication Methods | S. Pitcher | Chase Clyde | This bill requires local school boards to develop policies and procedures for students to have non-electronic notification of and access to certain activities and events. | Support | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 093 | School Climate Data Amendments | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones | This bill amends the required components for establishing and reporting data from the school climate survey. | Not Considered | |
| SB 105 | Student Privacy and Modesty in Public Education | J. Plumb | Chase Clyde | This bill enacts provisions regarding a student's reasonable expectation of individual privacy and personal modesty in the public education system. | Support | Not Considered |
| SB 117 | Office of Student Health Affairs | K. Riebe | Chase Clyde | This bill creates the Office of Student Health Affairs (office) within the Department of Health and Human Services (department). | Support | Not Considered |
| SB 121 Sub 1 | Long-term Educational Achievement Program | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones | This bill establishes the Long-term Educational Achievement Program. | Support | Not Considered in House |
| SB 137 | Teacher Empowerment | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones / Jay Blain | This bill amends or creates several programs to better empower and retain teachers in the state. | Support | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 138 | High-need School Amendments | K. Riebe | Jay Blain | This bill provides for grants to local education agencies to employ additional educators in high-need schools. | Support | Not Considered in House |
| SB 140 | Utah Retirement System Amendments | W. Harper | Jay Blain | This bill modifies the contribution provisions of the New Public Employees' Tier II Contributory Retirement Act. | Support | Not Considered |
| SB 159 Sub 4 | Public School Discipline and Conduct Plans Amendments | D. Buxton | Sara Jones | This bill creates within the Teacher and Student Success Program, the Teaching Self-Government Skills for Success, Classroom Communication, and Discipline Framework Pilot Program (pilot program) to address school discipline and conduct issues. | Watch | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 173 Sub 3 | Market Informed Compensation for Teachers | L. Fillmore | Sara Jones / Jay Blain | This bill amends and creates programs to enhance teacher salary supplement opportunities. | Oppose | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 216 Sub 1 | Public School Schedule Amendments | D. McCay | Sara Jones | This bill requires a local education agency (LEA) to use semesters or quarter for the LEA's school schedule. | Local Issue | Failed in Senate |
| SB 219 | School Activity Eligibility Commission Modifications | M. Kennedy | Chase Clyde | This bill amends provisions related to the operation of the School Activity Eligibility Commission. | Watch | Passed Senate and House |
| SB 221 Sub 3 | School District Amendments | K. Grover | Jay Blain | This bill amends and creates certain processes and requirements regarding school district creation. | Passed Senate and House | |
| SB 225 | School District Boundary Amendments | C. Bramble | Jay Blain | This bill modifies provisions related to school district boundaries. | Passed Senate and House | |
| SB 260 | School Events Amendments | K. Kwan | Sara Jones | This bill directs the State Board of Education to make rules clarifying that school principals and local education agency administration have authority to remove a spectator or participant from a school-sponsored activity for certain disruptive behavior under certain circumstances. | Not Considered | |
| SCR 001 | Concurrent Resolution Recognizing School Support Staff | L. Fillmore | Chase Clyde | This resolution acknowledges the contributions of school support staff and commits to celebrating their work. | Support | Passed Senate and House Signed by Governor Cox |
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