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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah bill establishes statewide removal standards and review processes for sensitive digital school materials
Last action · March 6, 2026: House/ filedSponsors: Nicholeen Peck and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Utah local education agencies must immediately remove digital instructional materials that meet thresholds upon receiving a plausible complaint, and must pull items statewide if multiple school districts and charter schools flag them. The bill prohibits vendors from selling or promoting goods or services through provided digital instructional materials and sets a statewide effective date of July 1, 2026.
Changes how school districts review, restrict, and pull digital textbooks and online applications following challenges by parents, students, or staff, while establishing state-level audits and mandatory legal indemnification for enforcing personnel.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Local Education Agencies
Local education agencies must review new instructional material, process challenges, immediately remove flagged content, and enforce statewide bans.
vendors of digital instructional material
Vendors are prohibited from selling or promoting goods or services through digital instructional materials provided to contracting entities.
public school students
Students lose access to instructional materials that are determined to be objective or subjective sensitive material.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is eligible to initiate a sensitive material review under this bill?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the House · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
46 actions- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ received from Senate
- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ to House
- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ strike enacting clause
- Mar 5, 2026SenateSenate/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- Mar 4, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Recommends Returned to Rules
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- Mar 4, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Held
- Feb 26, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Not Considered
- Feb 25, 2026SenateCommitteeSenate/ to standing committee
- Feb 23, 2026SenateIntroducedSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Feb 20, 2026SenateSenate/ received from House
- Feb 20, 2026HouseHouse/ to Senate
- Feb 20, 2026HouseFloorHouse/ passed 3rd reading
- Feb 20, 2026HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
- Feb 16, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0197S04
- Feb 16, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0197S04
- Feb 13, 2026HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
- Feb 13, 2026HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ substituted
- Feb 12, 2026HouseHouse Comm - Favorable Recommendation
- Feb 12, 2026HouseHouse Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- Feb 12, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0197S04
- Feb 12, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0197S04
- Feb 11, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0197S02
- Feb 11, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0197S03
- Feb 11, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0197S03
- Feb 11, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0197S02
- Feb 9, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0197S03
- Feb 9, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0197S03
- Feb 6, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0197S02
- Feb 6, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0197S02
- Feb 6, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0197S01
- Feb 4, 2026HouseHouse Comm - Not Considered
- Feb 4, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0197S01
- Feb 2, 2026HouseCommitteeHouse/ to standing committee
- Feb 2, 2026House Rules CommitteeBill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0197S01
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0197S01
- Jan 26, 2026HouseHouse/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- Jan 23, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0197
- Jan 20, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Jan 16, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0197
- Jan 14, 2026HouseHouse/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Jan 8, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0197
- Jan 8, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0197
- Jan 8, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Jan 8, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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