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Utah law requires school districts to have policies for responding to students who have committed serious offenses or sexual crimes, including how the school handles reintegration, alternative placement, and coordination with school resource officers. This bill clarifies that such policies must apply when a student has been arrested for, charged with, or found guilty of such an offense—not only after a formal conviction—and it adds specific definitions for "arrest," "charge," and "adjudication" that distinguish how these terms apply to minors versus adult students 18 and older. The bill also requires school policies to include a process for alternative placement if a student attends the same school as their victim or someone who holds a protective order against them, and makes other minor technical updates to existing discipline policy requirements.