2025 bills / H.B. 247
H.B. 247 School Swimming and Lifeguarding Programs (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill would require Utah public schools' physical education core standards to include water safety instruction, and would let students be exempted from that instruction under certain circumstances. It would also let local school districts and charter schools offer swimming instruction, lifeguard certification, and swim instructor certification courses, count those courses toward physical education or other requirements, and contract with outside providers, with the State Board of Education writing implementing rules.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the inclusion of water safety instruction in the public education core curriculum standards for physical education
- allows the exemption of a student from required water safety instruction under certain circumstances
- allows a local education agency (LEA) to:
- provide swim instruction, lifeguard certification training, and swim instructor certification training as courses under certain conditions
- construe the completion of certain courses toward physical education credit requirements or other requirements
- enter into an agreement with certain providers to offer certain programs
- grants rulemaking authority to the State Board of Education
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Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 8 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/19/2025 4:46 PMWho voted how
- 6 yes, 3 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · 2/19/2025 4:46 PMWho voted how
- 38 yes, 37 noFinal House vote · 2/26/2025 11:58 AMWho voted how
- 2 yes, 2 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: Senate vote, which failed · 3/3/2025 5:11 PMWho voted how