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Starting in July 2026, Utah's State Board of Education would be required to add artificial intelligence, digital literacy, and social media safety topics into the state's core computer science standards, and to create statewide model policies on balanced classroom technology use and on AI use by July 2027 for school districts and charter schools (LEAs) to adopt or customize. The bill would set specific rules for how technology is used in classrooms — including requiring LEAs to vet all instructional technology for educational value and safety, minimize unnecessary screen-time, and follow grade-level limits, such as nearly no classroom screen-time in kindergarten through third grade, no take-home devices for grades 4–6, written parental opt-in for middle schoolers to take devices home, and parental opt-out rights for high schoolers. LEAs would also need to create resource plans for students who struggle learning through technology, notify parents in writing when AI is used for instruction, and prohibit teachers from using AI to independently grade work or make high-stakes decisions about a student's placement or discipline; compliance with these technology and AI policies would become a condition for LEAs to receive certain state technology funding. Additionally, high schools would be allowed, but not required, to offer an optional AI "sandbox" career and technical education course for students in grades 9–12, subject to privacy safeguards and written parental consent.