Legislative Bills

That Utah PTA and its constituent associations encourage LEAs to increase engagement in school and to counterbalance and remediate the effects of chronic absenteeism during the school year with multidisciplinary strategies: targeted afterschool and summer programs; sports, and extracurricular participation; mentoring, tutoring; mental health supports, basic needs provision, and access to transportation;

Resolved, That Utah PTA supports the expansion of optional full-day kindergarten programs for students in need of support to achieve minimal learning standards and requests increased funding to support such expansion.

Resolved, that Utah PTA and its constituent associations support schools in implementing best practices in meeting the needs of diverse students through such practices as inclusion, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Response to Intervention (RTI), and any other similar instructional practices to support instruction from a Core content expert, and access to accommodations including assistive technology for students with disabilities, that these students be enabled to go as far as possible toward achieving their full potential and living a meaningful, fulfilling life.

That Utah PTA and its constituent associations support adequate funding for federal and state housing programs that increase the number of affordable housing units including rental and homeownership options

National PTA Resolution -Substance and Alcohol Abuse Awareness and Prevention

Resolved, That the National PTA and its constituent organizations work for increased awareness of existing regulations and laws which protect children from these hazards to their health and well being; and be it further

Resolved, That the National PTA and its constituent organizations increase public awareness regarding the methods, symptoms, effects and dangers of substance and alcohol abuse to our children and youth.

Resolved, That Utah PTA and its constituent bodies encourage and support passage of legislation that will fund the initial retrofit-or-replace cost assessments of each identified URM school building and further funds to assess other schools at lower, but still significant, risk; and be it further
Resolved, That Utah PTA and its constituent bodies encourage and support passage of legislation that will help school districts fund earthquake retrofit or replacement of seismically unsound school buildings (including funding local cost-shares for federal grants), particularly for districts that lack adequate bonding capacity or authority to raise necessary funds; and be it further
Resolved, That Utah PTA and its constituent bodies encourage the state to extend the school inventory to include all Utah schools, including public charter schools and private schools, which may not yet have been evaluated.
 

That Utah PTA support effective FDA efforts to regulate ENDS as tobacco products; and, be it further Resolved, That Utah PTA seek and support legislation that would include ENDS in the Utah Code Annotated definition of tobacco products and treat them as such –including the need for licensing, sales restrictions, tax parity, and marketing;