Legislative Bills

HB0262S02 | Juvenile Delinquency Amendments

Description

General Description:

This bill amends provisions relating to juvenile delinquency.

Bill Details

Bill Number:

HB0262S02

Year:

2020

Status:

Governor Signed

Last Action:

Mar 30, 2020

Fiscal Note

Fiscal Note Amount:

None

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Utah PTA Response

Utah PTA Position

Support

Impact on Children:

This would prohibit the prosecution of children who are 12 years of age or younger. Under the bill, the state will retain its ability to detain children involved in more serious crimes that are violent or involve sexual assault, for example. But for other lower-level crimes, children would be kept out of the court system, and in their homes. This way, the state can address the problems with other mechanisms such as therapy, specialized education, or health services.

Commission:

Family Life

Utah PTA Public Policy Program

Utah PTA Legislative Priorities:

7. Support legislation, funding, and community partnerships that provide programs and resources to strengthen families and children’s social and emotional well being through affordable housing, homelessness initiatives, education, and parenting skills, and juvenile justice reforms.

National PTA and Utah PTA Position Statements:

Prohibit youth who are charged with a serious crime from being tried in the adult court system unless there has been an opportunity for a judicial hearing and appeal.

National PTA Public Policy Agenda

Every child should have the opportunity to reach their full potential—even if they make a mistake while growing up. Second chances are important as children learn and grow into adulthood. However, for far too many youth, one mistake may drastically change their futures. This is why PTA has long advocated for family and community-based alternatives to children entering the juvenile justice system and is pleased that Congress reauthorized the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) in 2018.

Links

National PTA Public Policy

National Position Child Safety and Protection

Utah PTA Legislative Priorities 2019-2020

HB0264 | Health Education Amendments

Description

General Description:

This bill amends provisions related to health education.

Highlighted Provisions:

This bill requires the State Board of Education to establish curriculum requirements that include instruction in: sexual assault resource strategies; sexual violence behavior prevention; and the legal implications of electronically distributing sexually explicit images

Bill Details

Bill Number:

HB0264

Year:

2024

Status:

House/ filed

Last Action:

Mar 01, 2024

Fiscal Note

Fiscal Note Amount:

None

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Utah PTA Response

Utah PTA Position

Support

Impact on Children:

This bill would require the State Board of Education to establish curriculum requirements that would include age appropriate instruction in:
• sexual assault resource strategies;
• sexual violence behavior prevention; and
• the legal implications of electronically distributing sexually explicit images

Commission:

Health

Utah PTA Public Policy Program

National PTA and Utah PTA Position Statements:

National PTA RESPONSE TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AFFECTING STUDENTS--Resolved, That National PTA and its constituent associations collaborate with school administrations, institutions of higher learning, and community partners to ensure that every school:

Provides support services for victims of sexual harassment and sexual violence, and
Presents awareness and prevention programs that address sexual harassment and sexual violence affecting students, and
Includes training on the responsibilities of educational institutions, as well as the rights of sexual violence and sexual harassment victims under Title IX and other laws and regulations.

HB0266 | Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program

Description

General Description:

This bill creates the Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program.

Highlighted Provisions:

This bill creates the Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program

Bill Details

Bill Number:

HB0266

Year:

2022

Status:

House/ filed

Last Action:

Mar 04, 2022

Fiscal Note

Fiscal Note Amount:

$2,000,000

This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023: to Department of Workforce Services -- Operations and Policy -- Workforce Development, as a one-time appropriation: From General Fund, One-time, $2,000,000.

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Utah PTA Response

Utah PTA Position

Support

Utah PTA Resolution:

HEA 2019-1 | Prevention & Promotion of Health Behaviors

Impact on Children:

Traumatic life experience means a life event or a series of life circumstances that a child (or adult) experiences as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening and has lasting adverse effects on the person's physical, emotional, mental, social, or spiritual well-being. Evidence indicates that integrated, prevention programs addressing multiple risk factors
and community coalitions can be effective across a range of priority health-risk behaviors
prevalent in adolescence. This bill will support efforts to create such prevention programs.

Commission:

Health

Utah PTA Public Policy Program

National PTA and Utah PTA Resolutions:

Utah PTA and its constituent associations will participate and support methods to assess
and recognize the risk and protective factors in their local schools, families and
communities;

Utah PTA and its constituent associations will support evidence based programs to
decrease risk factors and increase protective factors in our homes, schools and
communitie

HB0267 | Voluntary Lethal Means Restrictions Amendments

Description

General Description:

This bill creates a voluntary process for an individual to restrict the individual's ability to purchase a firearm.

Highlighted Provisions:

This bill requires the Bureau of Criminal Identification to create a process and forms to allow a non-restricted individual to voluntarily become a restricted individual for a limited period of time;

Bill Details

Bill Number:

HB0267

Year:

2021

Status:

Governor Signed

Last Action:

Mar 16, 2021

Fiscal Note

Fiscal Note Amount:

None

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Utah PTA Response

Utah PTA Position

Support

Utah PTA Resolution:

HEA 2019-2 | Youth Suicide Prevention

Impact on Children:

This innovative suicide prevention approach gives people the option to voluntarily suspend their ability to buy guns, acknowledging they may experience a future mental health crisis and don’t want to impulsively buy a firearm that could cause fatal harm. The goal is to help people stay alive and safe if a crisis were to occur—while respecting Second Amendment rights.

Over the past two years, the bill was designed with the direct input and consultation of Utah mental health and suicide prevention leaders who feel that this is an important tool in the toolbox of suicide prevention.

Commission:

Safety

Utah PTA Public Policy Program

National PTA and Utah PTA Resolutions:

That Utah PTA and its constituent associations support evidence-based suicide prevention programs focused on improving mental health including, but not limited to, teaching students, teachers, and parents mindfulness skills, coping skills, decision making skills, and helping them to build connections and improve dispositions;

Utah PTA Legislative Policy:

To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship.
To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth.

Utah PTA Legislative Priorities:

5. Support measures to promote safe and healthy environments and behaviors for children to prevent suicide, sexual exploitation, and human trafficking,

National PTA Public Policy Agenda

Enact Legislation to Protect Youth, Families and Communities From Gun and Other Violence

HB0270 | Parent Access to School Data Comparison

Description

General Description:

This bill requires the Utah State Board of Education to provide an online school comparison tool to facilitate parent access to compare public school performance.

Highlighted Provisions:

Requires the Utah State Board of Education to provide an online school comparison tool to facilitate parent access to compare school performance.

Bill Details

Bill Number:

HB0270

Year:

2022

Status:

Governor Signed

Last Action:

Mar 24, 2022

Fiscal Note

Fiscal Note Amount:

None

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Utah PTA Response

Utah PTA Position

Support

Utah PTA Resolution:

EDU 2013-1 | Family Engagement in Education

Impact on Children:

As a child's first and best teacher, a parent should be able to be informed on their child's school's performance.

Commission:

Family Life

Utah PTA Public Policy Program

National PTA and Utah PTA Resolutions:

That Utah PTA support policies of the State Board of Education and local school districts that result in practices that encourage parental engagement in education;

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