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House amends bill to let school‑district childcare centers lease surplus space while keeping regulatory requirements
Summary
The House amended House Bill 22 to remove statutory barriers that limited use of surplus classroom space for childcare, deleted an arbitrary 5% classroom cap and clarified district‑run employee centers must comply with state regulations; sponsors circled the bill for later consideration.
Representative Jones, sponsor of House Bill 22, told the House the bill is intended to put surplus public‑school space to use for licensed childcare centers to help ease Utah’s growing childcare shortage. “My purpose was to take a public resource, which is surplus space in certain public schools, and to put that resource to use in trying to solve our growing childcare crisis in this state,” Jones said.
The legislation, as amended on the floor, would do three things: remove a requirement that a school must be operating at 70% of maximum student capacity before leasing surplus space for a childcare center; eliminate a provision limiting a…
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