2025 bills / H.B. 455
H.B. 455 Utah Fits All Scholarship Program Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes Utah's Fits All scholarship program by tightening residency and income checks, creating a financial administrator to handle payments from scholarship accounts, and barring contracted entities from charging families processing fees. It sets deadlines for accepting or denying scholarships, caps extracurricular and physical education spending at 20% of a scholarship each, lets unused funds roll over, and creates a restricted state account where those funds can earn interest and be invested.
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Official description
- strengthens residency requirements and income verification process
- amends the definition of the program manager
- creates a financial administrator to process payments and fund expenditures from a scholarship account
- prohibits contracted entities from charging processing fees to families
- establishes deadlines for scholarship acceptance or denial
- limits extracurricular expenses to 20% of the scholarship amount
- limits physical education expenses to an additional 20% of the scholarship amount
- creates procedures for students with special needs
- enhances program manager accountability through audits and transparency
- adds requirements for a local education agency acting as qualified providers
- allows for scholarship amount rollovers
- creates a Utah Fits All Scholarship Restricted Account (the account)
- allows funds within the account to accrue interest and be invested
- allows for rollover amounts of unused scholarship awards
- clarifies the State Tax Commission's role in income verification
- makes technical changes
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/13/2025 6:07 PMWho voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/13/2025 6:08 PMWho voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · 2/13/2025 6:09 PMWho voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · 2/24/2025 10:58 AM
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/26/2025 5:27 PMWho voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · 2/26/2025 5:57 PMWho voted how
- 26 yes, 1 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/27/2025 7:07 PM
- 25 yes, 1 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/28/2025 12:07 PMWho voted how
- 66 yes, 0 no, 9 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/3/2025 11:29 AM