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Starting in the 2026-27 academic year, this bill directs the Utah Board of Higher Education to create a policy requiring colleges and universities to incorporate "seminal documents" — such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Federalist Papers, presidential speeches, and landmark Supreme Court opinions — into general education writing courses when instructors and institutions determine it is appropriate for their course goals. The policy must preserve faculty discretion over which documents to use, how to design assignments, and how to maintain a variety of writing styles in the curriculum. Schools may also voluntarily go further by adopting a more structured version of these requirements, including assigning students at least three analytical writing assignments based on these primary source documents.