# Utah S.B. 1: Public Education Base Budget Amendments

Utah S.B. 1, Public Education Base Budget Amendments, is a 2025 General Session Senate bill sponsored by Heidi Balderree (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-02-14 (Governor Signed); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Utah S.B. 1
- State: Utah
- Session: 2025 General Session
- Title: Public Education Base Budget Amendments
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-20
- Last action: 2025-02-14, Governor Signed
- Sponsor: Heidi Balderree (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Subjects: Public Budgeting, Education, K-12 Education, Legislative Operations, Government Operations (State Issues), Appropriations
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 6 (98 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 24

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Schools receive teacher and student funding: benefit, high. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides about $443.12 million for educator salary adjustments. It also funds charter school local replacement at $302.91 million, pupil transportation at $134.41 million, and educator professional time at $77.7 million. The School LAND Trust Pr…
- State funding backs local school levies: benefit, high. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, voted local levy programs receive about $761.95 million. Board local levy programs receive about $511.06 million. These appropriations include $127.55 million from the Local Levy Growth Account and $56.25 million from the Minimum Basic Growth Account. T…
- School nutrition programs receive food funding: benefit, medium. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, Child Nutrition receives about $374.07 million. Federal food commodities receive another $31.54 million. The money supports school nutrition programs and participating students. These appropriations do not set a family's eligibility or individual benefi…
- Students receive learning and skills funding: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, education standards programs receive about $141.72 million for special education and $15.68 million for early literacy improvement. They also receive about $28.18 million for teaching and learning, $26.81 million for assessment and accountability, and $19.2 million for caree…
- Utah moves money into education reserves: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law transfers about $492.05 million from the Uniform School Fund into education reserves. The money goes to the Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account. This is a transfer between state accounts, not a new household payment.
- Charter schools receive startup and financing funds: benefit, low. Fiscal year 2025 changes provide about $2.43 million for new charter school startups and $150,000 for statewide training. Beginning July 1, 2025, charter board and administration receive about $2.31 million, training receives $550,000, and startups receive $3.5 million. The Charter School Revolving…
- Classrooms receive grade-based teaching supply funds: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, supply funding is based on classroom teacher positions. Pre-K special education and kindergarten through grade 6 receive $500 per position. Grades 7–12 receive $250 per position. These amounts are subject to proportional reductions only if available funding is insufficient.…
- Eligible schools receive building program funds: benefit, low. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, school building programs receive about $27.61 million through the Foundation Program. The Enrollment Growth Program receives about $5.64 million. These funds support schools and districts eligible for the building programs. The School Building Revolving…
- Online learning receives student program funding: benefit, low. For fiscal year 2025, online education funding includes about $1.64 million for the Statewide Online Education Program. The schedule also provides about $1.06 million for home and private school students and $13,800 for small high school support. Beginning July 1, 2025, the subsidy schedule provide…
- School levy guarantees gain five-year protection: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying school districts keep state levy guarantees after property-value changes lower certified tax rates. The guarantee cannot fall solely for that reason for five years after the rate change. Districts must apply the rate reduction proportionally across voted, board, a…
- Schools receive student and leadership support: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Student Support Services receives about $77.97 million and student mental health screenings receive $1 million. Teacher retention grants in Indigenous schools receive $728,500. The law also provides about $5.88 million for school turnaround and leadership development and $2.…
- Students receive funded school arts outreach: benefit, low. Fiscal year 2025 changes provide $579,000 for Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools. The arts outreach provisional program receives $75,100, and the subsidy program receives $25,000. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools receives about $…
- Students receive funded science outreach programs: benefit, low. Fiscal year 2025 changes provide $1,300 for Informal Science Education Enhancement and $125,000 for provisional science outreach. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, direct science outreach grants total $6.04 million. Recipients include Clark Planetarium, about $1.05 million; Discovery Ga…
- Teachers receive licensing and credential support: benefit, low. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, educator licensing receives about $3.46 million. Science, technology, engineering, and math endorsement incentives receive about $1.31 million. The law also provides $346,300 for National Board-Certified Teachers. These are program budgets, not fixed aw…
- Underage drinking prevention receives state funding: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law transfers $1.75 million from the Liquor Control Fund to underage drinking prevention. The money goes to the Underage Drinking Prevention Program Restricted Account. Interest adds $58,300, bringing the scheduled account total to about $1.81 million. This funds a preve…
- School aid gains a funding safeguard: benefit, low. Beginning in fiscal year 2026, school funding increases above inflation trigger required support for the Local Levy Growth Account. This applies when the Executive Appropriations Committee raises the Weighted Pupil Unit value above the inflation-adjustment amount. The requirement covers both base a…
- Schools face stricter funding data deadlines: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, the state education board must set reporting rules and deadlines for districts and charter schools. It must send data for inflation and enrollment funding adjustments to the legislative fiscal analyst by October 15 each year. Late or incomplete local reports cannot be used t…
- Teacher endorsement incentive funding gets cut: cost, low. For fiscal year 2025, the law cuts the STEM Endorsement Incentives program budget by $7,200. This leaves less program funding for teacher incentives tied to science, technology, engineering, and math endorsements. The law does not state how any individual teacher's payment changes.
- Utah schools get core classroom funding: mixed, high. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, core school funding includes about $3.56 billion from the Uniform School Fund. Sources also include $842.1 million in local revenue and $50 million from education reserves. Allocations include about $2.83 billion for grades 1–12, $194.5 million for kind…
- Student grants funded; some programs trimmed: mixed, medium. For fiscal year 2026, beginning July 1, 2025, Utah Fits All scholarships receive about $82.63 million and Carson Smith Scholarships receive $10.98 million. Early-literacy software receives about $12.75 million, reading assessment tools $3.77 million, and computer science initiatives $5 million. The…
- Property taxes help fund Utah schools: mixed, low. For the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025, the law sets two statewide school property-tax revenue targets. The minimum basic target is $810.5932 million, with a preliminary rate of 0.001408. The Weighted Pupil Unit value target is $31.5086 million, with a preliminary rate of 0.000055. The Tax Commi…
- Deaf and blind school budgets shift: mixed, low. Fiscal year 2025 changes provide about $5.18 million for transportation and support and $960,600 for accessible instructional materials. They also provide about $1.77 million for the School for the Deaf and $3.69 million for the School for the Blind. That schedule cuts administration by about $8.56…
- Education offices receive funding and shifts: mixed, low. Fiscal year 2025 changes provide about $2.21 million for board administration, $1.04 million for financial operations, and $539,200 for financial systems grants. That year's Excellence in Education and Leadership funding falls by $45 million. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides a one-time $45…
- School programs receive funding and cuts: mixed, low. For fiscal year 2025, the law provides $250,000 for career and technical student groups. It provides $171,000 for Early Learning Training and Assessment and $100,000 for the State Safety and Support Program. It also cuts funding for Dual Immersion, Special Education State Programs, Youth-in-Custody…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Heidi Balderree (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Stephen L. Whyte (Republican), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-01-30 | House | House/ passed 3rd reading | pass | 73 | 0 |   |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Senate/ uncircled | fail | 0 | 0 |   |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension | pass | 25 | 0 |   |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Senate/ circled | fail | 0 | 0 |   |
|   | Senate | Senate/ circled | fail | 0 | 0 |   |
|   | Senate | Senate/ uncircled | fail | 0 | 0 |   |

## Actions (27)

- 2025-02-14: Governor Signed
- 2025-02-10: Senate/ to Governor (Senate)
- 2025-02-10: Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing (Senate)
- 2025-02-07: Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing (Senate)
- 2025-02-07: Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- 2025-02-03: Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- 2025-01-31: Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- 2025-01-31: Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling (Senate)
- 2025-01-31: Senate/ received from House (Senate)
- 2025-01-30: House/ to Senate (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ passed 3rd reading (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ 3rd reading (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ 2nd reading (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar (House)
- 2025-01-30: House/ 1st reading (Introduced) (House)
- 2025-01-29: House/ received from Senate (House)
- 2025-01-29: Senate/ to House (Senate)
- 2025-01-29: Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension (Senate)
- 2025-01-29: Senate/ uncircled (Senate)
- 2025-01-28: Senate/ circled (Senate)
- 2025-01-28: Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension (Senate)
- 2025-01-28: Senate/ lifted from Rules (Senate)
- 2025-01-22: Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst (Senate)
- 2025-01-21: Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced) (Senate)
- 2025-01-20: Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research (Senate)
- 2025-01-20: Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed

## Bill text

- Enrolled, 2025-02-07: [PDF](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0001.pdf)
- Introduced, 2025-01-20: [PDF](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0001.pdf)

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- S.B. 199: Guardianship Amendments (signed)
- H.B. 562: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Amendments (signed)
- H.B. 493: Medical Examiner Amendments (signed)
- H.B. 482: Health and Human Services Reporting Requirements (signed)
- S.B. 197: Property Tax Amendments (vetoed)
- S.B. 3: Appropriations Adjustments (signed)

## Sources
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0001.pdf)
- [Introduced (PDF)](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0001.pdf)

## Related
- [S.B. 199: Guardianship Amendments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-SB199-2025GS)
- [H.B. 562: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Amendments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-HB562-2025GS)
- [H.B. 493: Medical Examiner Amendments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-HB493-2025GS)
- [H.B. 482: Health and Human Services Reporting Requirements](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-HB482-2025GS)
- [S.B. 197: Property Tax Amendments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-SB197-2025GS)
- [S.B. 3: Appropriations Adjustments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-SB3-2025GS)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/UT-SB1-2025GS (as of 2026-10-17).