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The Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, which gives families state-funded accounts to pay for private school tuition, tutoring, curriculum, and other approved educational costs, would see a range of consumer protection and oversight updates under this bill. Students would need to be under 19 as of September 1 to qualify, and siblings of current scholarship recipients would move up in priority for new awards, with households applying together and having the option to accept a partial scholarship award or stay on the waitlist if funds run short for all their children. Private schools with 150 or more students would face new financial solvency verification requirements, and beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, participating schools would need to publish tuition, fees, and refund policies online, charge scholarship students the same rates as other students, and forward any tuition refunds directly back into a student's scholarship account. The bill also requires the program manager to process parent reimbursement requests within 10 business days, create a pre-approval system so families can check whether an expense qualifies before spending money, maintain adequate call center staffing, ensure marketplace prices reflect fair value, and guarantee that scholarship students can participate in public school sports and extracurricular activities on the same terms as home school or private school students.