Legislative Bills

directs the Legislature to annually appropriate money for salary supplements for a certified athletic director and certified master athletic director; includes in money appropriated for a salary supplement employer-paid benefits; requires the State Board of Education to create an application and determine whether an applicant qualifies for a salary supplement; and requires an athletic director to hold a current certificate and apply to the State Board of Education in order to receive the salary supplement

This bill addresses the Special Opportunity Needs Scholarship's (known) issues.
1. It reduces the time to provide an audit from 180 to 120 days of the state fiscal year.
2. A private school is not eligible to enroll scholarship students if charges a scholarship student more in tuition or fees than another student based solely upon the scholarship student being a scholarship recipient under this part.
3. It also extend procurement deadline as needed "For the year 2023, if the state board determines that it is not feasible to successfully meet a procurement and contracting deadline in this part, the state board may extend the deadline by no more than 90 days."
4. the state auditor shall conduct regular audits of the SNOS, Carson, and the Utah Fit All scholarships

This bill:
12          ▸     modifies definitions and defines terms;
13          ▸     repeals a requirement that the Child Welfare Training Coordinator be appointed by
14     the director of the Division of Child and Family Services;
15          ▸     modifies the training requirements for caseworkers of the Division of Child and
16     Family Services;
17          ▸     clarifies that the Division of Child and Family Services may share a record related
18     to an investigation of a report of child abuse or neglect with certain persons;
19          ▸     modifies provisions that require the Division of Child and Family Services to
20     remove certain information from a record related to a report or an investigation of
21     child abuse or neglect before disclosing the record to the subject of the report or a
22     parent or guardian;
23          ▸     allows certain information and records contained in the Management Information
24     System developed by the Division of Child and Family Services to be classified as
25     private or controlled under the Government Records Access and Management Act;
26          ▸     allows the Division of Child and Family Services to share a record related to a
27     report or an investigation of child abuse or neglect with the Division of Substance
28     Abuse and Mental Health, the Department of Health, or a local substance abuse authority for
29     the purpose of providing substance abuse treatment to a parent of a newborn child;
30          ▸     directs the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to coordinate with the
31     Department of Health and other health care providers to develop a program to
32     reduce substance abuse by parents of a newborn child;
33          ▸     requires the Department of Human Services to perform a review of a child who has
34     suffered a near fatality and is the subject of an open case for child welfare services
35     within one year of the near fatality;
36          ▸     modifies the fatality review process of the Department of Human Services to allow
37     review of near fatalities of children;
38          ▸     modifies the requirements giving notice of a summons for a parent or guardian of a
39     juvenile proceeding;
40          ▸     amends the requirements for returning a child to the custody of a parent or guardian
41     in a shelter hearing;
42          ▸     clarifies that an adjudication for abuse, neglect, or dependency of a child, or
43     termination or restoration of parental rights may not be expunged;
44          ▸     modifies the type of records that a court may order sealed in a juvenile
45     expungement proceeding;