2025 bills / H.B. 473
H.B. 473 School Digital Materials Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill requires schools to tell parents each year about sensitive material in digital school materials and post reporting information on their websites. It also requires schools and the state to filter student-accessible databases and school devices, remove vendor materials after repeated violations, and allow contracts to be canceled.
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Official description
- defines terms
- includes information regarding sensitive material in the information the state board provides through a certain parent portal
- requires each local education agency (LEA) to:
- provide certain information to parents at the time of student registration each year
- maintain a section on the homepage of the LEA's website regarding sensitive material reporting
- allows the state board, an LEA, or the Utah Education and Telehealth Network (UETN) to rescind certain contracts if a vendor does not remove access to digital sensitive material after a number of instances
- requires the state board, an LEA, or UETN to:
- remove access to digital instructional material that a vendor provides after a certain threshold of violations
- provide certain notice to each vendor with which the entity contracts to provide digital instructional material in a school setting
- ensure that any database or school-provided device which a student may access uses a filter or other software to prohibit access to sensitive material
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 473 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 473 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
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 3 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 54 yes, 14 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how