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Committee holds civics bill to allow more coordination on implementation

Utah House Education Standing Committee · February 4, 2026
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Summary

HB 3.12, which would require spiraled annual civics instruction and delay implementation to 2028–29 with USBE reporting back, was held by the committee after members sought coordination with other civics proposals and clarification about standards and timeline.

Representative Ivory presented a substitute to HB 3.12 that would require annual ('spiraling') civics instruction, ask the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to work with the Civic Thought and Leadership Institute to develop an implementation plan, and push start date to the 2028–29 school year. He cited Texas’s spiraling civics approach and quoted George…

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