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Committee approves school security personnel standard changes, adopts two amendments

Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Standing Committee · March 3, 2026
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Summary

The committee approved a substitute for the school security personnel standards bill, adopting two amendments and voting 4–0 to send the measure to the full Senate. Sponsor said the substitute expands options for local education agencies and funds previously appropriated panic alert devices.

Representative Wilcox presented the substitute to update school security personnel standards, saying the measure gives local education agencies additional flexibility in several areas: moving stipend distribution to the Utah State Board of Education, allowing special function officers as a trained option, expanding access to…

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