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When a student is arrested, charged, or found responsible in juvenile court for a serious offense, Utah schools must work with a team that includes school officials, the juvenile court, youth justice agencies, and school safety staff to create a plan for returning the student to school; this bill would extend the deadline for completing that plan from five to seven school days, and would add a new rule requiring the plan to be finished before school resumes if the notification arrives during summer break. It would also let the team tailor the plan by adding whatever additional interventions members decide the student needs, on top of the required behavioral, mental health, and academic supports, and would specify that a completed plan stays in effect for the full school year or 180 days unless the team decides it's still needed longer. Additionally, the bill would broaden the rule preventing a student from returning to a school where a victim is enrolled, expanding it from covering only sexual crimes or forcible felonies to covering a wider list of serious offenses defined elsewhere in state law. Finally, it would make small technical clarifications about which agencies or their designees can serve on the team responsible for building these plans.