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Lawmakers back package on potty-training standard, state curriculum and stabilization-fund use
Summary
SB 119 bundles three education measures: clarifying school-entry potty-training requirements, directing the State Board to develop a Utah K–8 curriculum, and allowing a defined use of stabilization funds to maintain the weighted pupil unit amid a federal revenue-driven shortfall.
Senate Bill 119, a three-part package, won committee approval after sponsors and witnesses described technical fixes and a fiscal plan to protect K–12 funding amid a projected state revenue shortfall.
Sponsor Senator Fillmore said the bill first clarifies that children must be potty trained before entering public school (not only before kindergarten), updating language from last year’s law. The second part tasks the State Board of Education with developing a…
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