2025 bills / S.B. 223
S.B. 223 Public Education Bullying Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes the legal definition of bullying used in Utah public schools. It adds separate definitions for bullying of students and bullying of staff, and makes some minor technical corrections.
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Official description
- amends the definition of "bullying"
- defines the terms "staff bullying" and "student bullying"
- makes technical corrections
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 223 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 223 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
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how