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Committee approves reintegration bill with tighter record-transfer timelines

Utah House Education Standing Committee · March 3, 2026
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Summary

Senate Bill 167 shortens timelines for transferring student disciplinary records and establishes reintegration teams and flags to help receiving schools identify safety risks; the committee adopted clarifying amendments and recommended the bill favorably 6–4 after discussion.

Senate Bill 167, presented by Senator McKay, creates a reintegration process for mobile students with a requirement that student records — including documentation of serious offenses — be transferred more quickly (the bill shortens a prior 30‑day standard to five days) and establishes a reintegration team and a flagging mechanism in the state system to alert receiving LEAs.

School-district witnesses said the working group behind the bill included prosecutors,…

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