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Utah law already bans "sensitive materials" — content that meets legal definitions of pornographic or indecent material — from classrooms, school libraries, and other school settings, and this bill would keep that ban in place while adding new details about how it works. The bill would create a formal exception stating that the ban cannot be enforced against specific materials if doing so would violate the U.S. or Utah Constitution, and it would require the State Board of Education and each local school board to adopt a policy limiting school libraries to materials that "advance a student's education" while excluding pornographic, indecent, or "otherwise age-inappropriate" content; schools would also be barred from newly acquiring any material meeting the sensitive-materials definition, though they would not be required to remove existing items. As under current practice, if at least three school districts (or two districts plus five charter schools) independently find a specific material to be objectively sensitive, that material would be removed from student access statewide unless the State Board votes to overturn the removal. The bill would newly allow school boards to ask students and parents to agree to arbitration for certain disputes, create a right for individuals harmed by a school's noncompliance to sue for a court order requiring compliance, require anyone who sues to block enforcement of the law (or their attorney) to pay the winning side's legal costs if they lose, and grant the state, school districts, and their employees broad legal immunity — including limits on courts' ability to block enforcement of the law altogether.