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Utah panel backs amended bill to limit automatic school employment bans after educator discipline
Summary
The House Education Committee adopted a substitute to SB 3.12 that creates a two-tier framework distinguishing 'qualifying serious misconduct' from technical violations and requires written State Board findings before employment or volunteer restrictions apply in non-serious cases; the committee recommended the substituted bill 7-3.
Senator Johnson, sponsor of SB 3.12, told the House Education Committee the bill would clarify how educator licensure discipline interacts with school employment and volunteer service while strengthening due process protections for teachers.
The measure establishes a tiered framework that treats conduct causing actual or credible risk of harm to students as "qualifying serious misconduct," which triggers automatic employment and volunteer restrictions once a license suspension or revocation takes effect. For other suspensions or revocations, the State Board must issue written findings identifying a specific, articulable risk to students or the school environment before local employment or volunteer…
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