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District staff outline 2025 bills to watch: school safety funding, digital materials and audit changes among items affecting Canyons
Summary
An external‑relations briefing summarized dozens of bills in the 2025 session that the district is tracking, including a school safety appropriation, a pending digital‑materials bill tied to Chromebook access, and audit‑and‑privilege provisions that drew concern from the state bar.
District staff briefed the Canyons Board of Education on March 4 about major education‑related bills still alive in the Utah 2025 legislative session and their likely impacts on the district.
Charlie Evans, the district’s presenter on the legislative update, walked the board through a long list of bills and their current status. He said the school‑safety amendments bill (House Bill 40) had a partial appropriation — the sponsors requested $50 million and received $25 million — and Evans expected it to pass as part of the “bill of bills.” District staff flagged the appropriation as relevant to local school safety planning and future district grant…
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