Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 410 (2025GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Miller, Tracy

Final action

Governor Signed 3/26/2025

Outcome

Became law — signed by Gov. Spencer J. Cox

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• provides that the time employed as a preschool teacher in a child care program is equivalent to the time employed in a public school or accredited private school for purposes of relicensing;
• authorizes the use of housing and transit reinvestment zone funds to include expansion of child care facilities within the zone; and
• makes technical and conforming changes.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

17
53E-6-201
63N-3-607
53E-6-201
63N-3-607
6
Child Care Amendments
2025 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Tracy J. Miller
Senate Sponsor: Wayne A. Harper
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill modifies provisions relating to child care.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
provides that the time employed as a preschool teacher in a child care program is 
equivalent to the time employed in a public school or accredited private school for 
purposes of relicensing;
authorizes the use of housing and transit reinvestment zone funds to include construction 
or expansion of child care facilities within the zone; and
makes technical and conforming changes.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
53E-6-201
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 51
63N-3-607
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 521
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1, Section 
53E-6-201
 is amended to read:
53E-6-201
. State board licensure.
(1)
The state board shall make rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah 
Administrative Rulemaking Act, to establish a system for educator licensing that 
includes:
(a)
an associate educator license that permits an individual to provide educational 
services in a public school while working to meet the requirements of a professional 
educator license;
(b)
a professional educator license that permits an individual to provide educational 
services in a public school after demonstrating that the individual meets licensure 
requirements established in state board rule;
(c)
an LEA-specific educator license issued by the state board at the request of an LEA's 
governing body that is valid for an individual to provide educational services in the 
requesting LEA's schools; 
(d)
beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, a provider-specific license issued by the 
state board at the request of an authorized online course provider described in 
Subsection
Section
53F-4-504
 that:
(i)
is valid for an individual to provide educational services to a student enrolled in an 
online course described in 
Section 
53F-4-503
; and
(ii)
contains eligibility criteria that is no more stringent than the requirements for a 
license described in Subsection (1)(c); and
(e)
beginning in the 2029-2030 school year, the creation or modification of licenses if 
any are created or modified under Section 
53G-6-206
.
(2)
An individual employed in a position that requires licensure by the state board shall 
hold the license that is appropriate to the position.
(3)
(a)
(i)
Except as provided in Subsection (3)(a)(ii), the state board may make rules 
in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, 
to 
rank, endorse, or otherwise classify licenses and establish the criteria for 
obtaining, retaining, and reinstating licenses.
(ii)
The state board may not make licensure contingent upon passage of a pedagogical 
performance assessment.
(iii)
The state board shall consider employment duration as a preschool teacher in a 
child care program, as that term is defined in Section 
26B-2-401
, as equivalent to 
employment duration in a district school, charter school, or accredited private 
school for purposes of relicensing.
(b)
An educator who is enrolling in a course of study at an institution within the state 
system of higher education to satisfy the state board requirements for retaining a 
license is exempt from tuition, except for a semester registration fee established by 
the Utah Board of Higher Education, if:
(i)
the educator is enrolled on the basis of surplus space in the class after regularly 
enrolled students have been assigned and admitted to the class in accordance with 
regular procedures, normal teaching loads, and the institution's approved budget; 
and
(ii)
enrollments are determined by each institution under rules and guidelines 
established by the Utah Board of Higher Education in accordance with findings of 
fact that space is available for the educator's enrollment.
Section 2, Section 
63N-3-607
 is amended to read:
63N-3-607
. Payment, use, and administration of revenue from a housing and 
transit reinvestment zone.
(1)
A municipality or public transit county may receive and use tax increment and housing 
and transit reinvestment zone funds in accordance with this part.
(2)
(a)
A county that collects property tax on property located within a housing and 
transit reinvestment zone shall, in accordance with Section 
59-2-1365
, distribute to 
the municipality or public transit county any tax increment the municipality or public 
transit county is authorized to receive up to the maximum approved by the housing 
and transit reinvestment zone committee.
(b)
Tax increment distributed to a municipality or public transit county in accordance 
with Subsection (2)(a) is not revenue of the taxing entity or municipality or public 
transit county.
(c)
(i)
Tax increment paid to the municipality or public transit county are housing and 
transit reinvestment zone funds and shall be administered by an agency created by 
the municipality or public transit county within which the housing and transit 
reinvestment zone is located.
(ii)
Before an agency may receive housing and transit reinvestment zone funds from 
the municipality or public transit county, the municipality or public transit county 
and the agency shall enter into an interlocal agreement with terms that:
(A)
are consistent with the approval of the housing and transit reinvestment zone 
committee; and
(B)
meet the requirements of Section 
63N-3-603
.
(3)
(a)
A municipality or public transit county and agency shall use housing and transit 
reinvestment zone funds within, or for the direct benefit of, the housing and transit 
reinvestment zone.
(b)
If any housing and transit reinvestment zone funds will be used outside of the 
housing and transit reinvestment zone
,
 there must be a finding in the approved 
proposal for a housing and transit reinvestment zone that the use of the housing and 
transit reinvestment zone funds outside of the housing and transit reinvestment zone 
will directly benefit the housing and transit reinvestment zone.
(4)
(a)
A municipality or public transit county shall use housing and transit reinvestment 
zone funds to achieve the purposes described in Subsections 
63N-3-603
(1) and (2), 
by paying all or part of the costs of any of the following:
(a)
(i)
income targeted housing costs;
(b)
(ii)
structured parking within the housing and transit reinvestment zone;
(c)
(iii)
enhanced development costs;
(d)
(iv)
horizontal construction costs;
(e)
(v)
vertical construction costs;
(f)
(vi)
property acquisition costs within the housing and transit reinvestment zone;
or
(g)
(vii)
the costs of the municipality or public transit county to create and 
administer the housing and transit reinvestment zone, which may not exceed 2% 
of the total housing and transit reinvestment zone funds, plus the costs to complete 
the gap analysis described in Subsection 
63N-3-604
(2)
.
; or
(viii)
subject to Subsection 
(4)(b)
, costs for the construction or expansion of child 
care facilities within the boundary of the housing and transit reinvestment zone.
(b)
A municipality or public transit county may not use more than 1% of the total 
housing and transit reinvestment zone funds to pay costs described in Subsection 
(4)(a)(viii)
.
(5)
Housing and transit reinvestment zone funds may be paid to a participant, if the agency 
and participant enter into a participation agreement 
which
that
 requires the participant 
to utilize the housing and transit reinvestment zone funds as allowed in this section.
(6)
Housing and transit reinvestment zone funds may be used to pay all of the costs of 
bonds issued by the municipality or public transit county in accordance with Title 17C, 
Chapter 1, Part 5, Agency Bonds, including the cost to issue and repay the bonds 
including interest.
(7)
A municipality or public transit county may create one or more public infrastructure 
districts within the housing and transit reinvestment zone under Title 17D, Chapter 4, 
Public Infrastructure District Act, and pledge and utilize the housing and transit 
reinvestment zone funds to guarantee the payment of public infrastructure bonds issued 
by a public infrastructure district.
Section 3. 
Effective Date.
This bill takes effect on 
May 7, 2025
.
3-14-25 11:25 AM