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Under this bill, Utah public school teachers and administrators would be prohibited from implementing, measuring, grading, or tracking what the bill calls "character education" — broadly defined to include social-emotional learning programs, frameworks, and tools that aim to shape students' attitudes, beliefs, identities, or values, including programs from widely used sources like the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). School staff would also be barred from collecting or sharing data about a student's character education through any digital system or database. The bill assigns the state auditor responsibility for receiving complaints, investigating violations, and withholding state funds from public entities found to be out of compliance, and it gives parents the right to sue a school district directly if these prohibitions are violated, with the district responsible for paying attorney fees if the parent prevails.