2025 bills / H.B. 206
H.B. 206 Chronic Absenteeism Pilot Program (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill requires the State Board of Education to create rules for a pilot program called the Attendance Advantage - my529 Initiative, which aims to address chronic absenteeism. It sets design requirements, requires coordination with the Utah Educational Savings Plan, requires participating school districts to follow state attendance data standards, calls for an analysis of the program's results, and protects individual student records kept by the program.
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Official description
- requires the State Board of Education (state board) to make rules establishing the Attendance Advantage - my529 Initiative Pilot Program (program)
- requires coordination between the state board and the Utah Educational Savings Plan
- establishes requirements for program design and implementation
- requires participating local education agencies to follow state board attendance data standards
- requires analysis of program effectiveness
- makes program records containing individual student data protected
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 206 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 206 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 5, 2025 House Education Committee▶ Watch