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These bills not only help protect parental rights (as dictated in Utah’s Constitution), but they also provide important support to Utah’s children. Routines and normalcy have been disrupted and it would be wise to give families and students as much flexibility as possible.
This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on truancy laws in public education.
This bill improves parental rights in education by ensuring that truancy punishments do not apply to younger children, and that parents of older children are not criminalized for their truancy.
A new law clarifies that parents can excuse their child from government schools not only for physical illnesses, but mental ones also.
This bill would clarify in state law that parents may excuse their children from school not only for physical illness, but mental illness as well.
The Alpine School District offers a great example for how public schools can respect the right of parents to excuse their child's absences.

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