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Utah House approves measure adding mental-health absences to excused reasons for students
Summary
The House passed a bill to add mental or behavioral health to the list of reasons parents may excuse a student from school; sponsors said schools record only excused/unexcused, not diagnoses, and cited NAMI Utah and youth suicide concerns. The bill will be sent to the Senate.
The Utah House passed legislation to explicitly add mental and behavioral health to the list of reasons a parent may excuse a child from school.
Representative Winder, sponsor of House Bill 81, said the change clarifies state code and leaves recording practices with school counselors, who mark absences as "excused" or "unexcused" without noting…
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