S.B. 2: Public Education Budget Amendments

About this bill

Signed by the governor on March 26, 2026. This bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, and appropriates funds for the support and operation of public education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027.

• Defines terms
• Repeals the Digital Teaching and Learning Grant Program and an associated reporting requirement
• Creates reporting requirements regarding: the state superintendent transferring money appropriated to the Minimum School Program; and student personnel and data standards for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
• Requires the State Board of Education (state board) to establish certain student and personnel data standards for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
• Enacts provisions related to: weighted pupil units for college and career counseling; the calculation of educator salary adjustments; the state board's distribution of public education mental health screening funds; and a scholarship student's use of funds under the Utah Private Course Choice Empowerment Program
• Creates a repeal date for: the Personalized, Competency-based Learning Grants Program; and small school student access to online courses

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Heidi Balderree