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Utah House rejects bill to enforce equal access for education employee associations
Summary
After a day-long floor debate over registration, penalties and school access, the Utah House defeated Senate Bill 82, 51-18, after members split over whether state enforcement is needed to ensure equal access for education employee associations.
The Utah House of Representatives defeated Senate Bill 82, a measure aimed at enforcing a 2007 law guaranteeing equal access for education employee associations, after a protracted floor debate that stretched across March 6–7, 2012.
Representative Hughes, the House sponsor, said the bill was intended to ensure state law is applied uniformly in public schools and to protect educators’ ability to affiliate with associations. "This is not an encroachment on local control when we talk about state policy that we have set in creating enforcement measures to make sure that the will of this body and this statute is followed," Hughes told colleagues during her summation.
Opponents argued the bill was punitive and risked chilling routine school activities.…
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