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House advances multi-bill public-education recodification; sponsors stress reorganization, not policy change
Summary
Lawmakers advanced a four-bill package to recodify the state's education statutes (about 237 pages), removing obsolete references and reorganizing existing law. Sponsors said the effort makes the code easier to navigate and does not change substantive policy; companion Senate bills were moved and passed under suspension.
Representatives moved multiple companion bills on a broad public-education recodification effort intended to reorganize and clean up Title 53 of the Utah Code without making substantive policy changes.
Representative Val Peterson (sponsor) described House Bill 10 as the first of four recodification bills covering state-system administration and said a crosswalk website is available to show where old sections map into the new code. "It was our intent not to create any substantive changes,"…
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