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Open enrollment in Utah's public schools involves families applying to send their children to schools outside their assigned attendance area, and current law requires each local school district to post certain data about this process—such as school capacity, enrollment numbers, and transfer requests—on its own website, with reporting dates of January 2 and April 1. This bill would keep that local website posting requirement but change the reporting dates to December 1 and June 30, and would add a new requirement that districts also report all of this data annually to the Utah State Board of Education, along with the name and contact information for the district's open enrollment staff or specialist. The State Board would then be required to publish this information publicly on its own website, including a statewide report showing each school's data and its "open enrollment rate" (the share of enrolled students who come from outside the school's normal boundary), as well as contact information for open enrollment staff in every district. The bill would take effect on November 30, 2026.