Kathleen A. Riebe

• H.B. 334 Educator Organization Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Thanks the presiding officer and asks the sponsor to yield to questions.

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  Thank you Mr. Chair. I mean, thank you Mr. President. Um, has the sponsor yield to questions? Yes. Senator Balderree, will you yield?

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• H.B. 334 Educator Organization Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Asks about the requirement in line 51 that at least one Senate member on the commission be from each political party, noting three parties are represented on the floor.

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  Thank you. Um, when I look at line 51, it says three members of the Senate whom the president of the Senate appoints with at least one from each political party. So currently we have three political parties on the floor right now. Would that mean each party was represented?

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• H.B. 334 Educator Organization Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the bill sets 15 commission members and asks that this be placed on the record.

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  Thank you. Uh, it says that there's gonna be 15 members on this mission. Senator, you pull the mic around. I know that, uh, you're, you're, you're working on your computer, but I wanna make sure this is on the on record. Okay. Thank you. Oh, is that better? Sorry. Uh, there's 15 members on this commission.

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• H.B. 334 Educator Organization Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Argues the commission would have few classroom teachers and many political members, and states she cannot support the bill.

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  So when we have 15 people on this board, we only have maybe two that have education experience in a classroom and the rest of them are political people. So a commission that's supposed to change how we're gonna teach in the classroom has no teachers on it and has one superintendent. Um, doesn't really seem like it would make good policy for how the classroom would work. So we have a school board that has 15 members on it and that struggles a lot sometimes to make a decision. And now we're gonna add another 15 commission with hardly any representation of teachers who are actually in the classroom. So this is a very big commission with lots of …

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Asks whether a professor would have to create multiple lessons if many students object to parts of a curriculum on conscience grounds.

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  Thank you. Uh, we had a great conversation about this in committee. Uh, my concern was, and I don't see if it's addressed here, is that if a professor was, um, in a class and she had, or he had numerous people who were making conscientious objections to some curriculum, would that professor then be required to create multiple lessons?

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Restates the question of whether a professor must create multiple lessons when a student has several conscience objections.

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  Yes. If, um, a teacher has numerous different types of conscious objections to a lesson, does that professor now need to make multiple lessons?

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Asks why a student who chose to sign up for a class would take a class that violates their conscience.

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  So you would be actively signing up for a class because that's the class you wanted to take. And so if you're willingly signing up for a class that you wanna take, why would you take a class that violates your conscience?

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Asks whether changes to curriculum under the bill could jeopardize university or program accreditation.

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  Thank you. Um, as we talked about this in our, um, committee, we also discussed if you are going to change curriculum or that jeopardize your ability to be accredited as a class accredited, as a university accredited, as a, um, accredited, as a, um, major would losing that ability to teach the class that you believed you should be teaching it, would that jeopardize your accreditation?

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says professors do not support the bill, argues that university autonomy and academic classrooms should be protected, raises concerns about a slippery slope and grading, and states opposition to the bill.

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  Thank you. I I believe that our professors do not support this bill. I think that our, the beauty of higher ed is that it has autonomy and a lot of the bills that we're running this year, questioning the autonomy of what's happening in our universities actually jeopardizes the sanctity of a higher ed class. Um, I also would be curious what would happen if you were taking a class and you all, you weren't passing it, and then all of a sudden you're like, you know what? I need to have a different lesson because this is against my conscience. This opens up a lot of speculation for what's gonna happen in a university. If I was failing …

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• H.B. 420 Municipal Office Vacancy Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says she supports the bill and mentions that her husband won his city council seat by coin toss.

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  Thank you, Mr. President. I, I support this bill, but I have a little remorse. My husband actually won his seat on the city council by a coin toss. So, uh, he'll be sad that that's no longer an option, but I support this bill.

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• H.B. 467 Utah Fits All Scholarship Program Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Raises a concern that the bill's language on pass-through payments appears to conflict with giving families money to pay the school, and asks the sponsor about it.

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  Thank you Mr. President. Um, so on line 1 67 it says, private schools does not include an entity that distributes rebates or passes through to families any portion of enrollment funding. And then it almost seems like it does the reverse on lines 4 49 because now you're giving them money to the family to pay the school. That's not eligible. Senator Cullimore

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• H.B. 242 Initiative and Referendum Signature Gathering and Removal Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Asks why the minimum age for collecting signatures is 18 when the voting age is 16, and suggests 16-year-olds could take part.

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  Thank you Mr. President. I'm wondering why we chose the age of 18 to collect signatures when the voting age is 16. We talk about wanting to be civically engaged and I think it would be really exciting for kids that was 16 to be a part of this process. Is there a reason why we chose 18?

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• H.B. 408 Data Sharing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Supports the substitute, saying data sharing processes are not well understood and the bill should start over rather than add safe harbors.

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  Thank you, Mr. President. You know, um, it's uh, kind of an odd day when I get up and I agree with Senator Johnson. I, I look at how all this data is being manipulated and moved around. And it's similar to some of these bills are passing in education. We really don't understand what's happening in these big companies, in these data sharing process. All these internal processes that actually work to make our, um, make our programs more robust. And so this substitute would actually bring us back to where we were back to the drawing board, back to where we needed to start. Instead of trying to piecemeal it back to where it should have been and …

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• H.B. 408 Data Sharing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Asks whether a company would be out of compliance if it could not select and transfer only user-selected portions of data.

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  you. So I, I, I understand that we're trying to move in the right direction, but to the same extent, some of this stuff cannot be done. So when I look at line 44 that says users, user selected portion of data. So if you are asking for a section of data that's user selected, I don't know how you can get into all the bits and bytes of our data to pull out a bit and then skip a couple of bytes and then pick out a bit. So if a company doesn't do this, are they under vi are they in violation of not doing it properly? Because it, it doesn't really seem that you can pick and …

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• H.B. 408 Data Sharing Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Asks whether the five-business-day deadline for transferring data has a safe harbor if it is not met.

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  Yes, please. Thank You. So on line 91, it says within five business days. So the worldwide web is worldwide. And if you're gonna ask to have your personal specific, uh, user selected data moved from the whole worldwide web, and that's five days to get that done. That seems like a really short time. Um, once again, is there a safe harbor for this not happening?

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