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Senate Passes Health-Education Amendment Shifting State Guidance Toward Abstinence Focus
Summary
After an extended floor fight and an unsuccessful Romero amendment that would have preserved fact-based instruction and clarified constitutional defects, the Senate passed House Bill 363 to move Utah toward an abstinence-focused health-education standard and to remove a Planned-Parenthood endorsement link; the bill passed under suspension of rules.
House Bill 363 (health education amendments) drew some of the session's most extensive floor debate before the Senate approved it under suspension of rules.
Senator Dayton, sponsor, said the bill preserves teaching of biology and human development but restricts instruction that "goes into alternative lifestyles or contraception," framing the change as a return to abstinence-focused standards and removing state-office endorsement…
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