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Utah's dual language immersion program teaches students academic subjects in both English and a partner language, and includes concurrent enrollment courses that let advanced high school students earn college credit toward a foreign language degree. This bill, now formally named the Utah Language Bridge Program, would set detailed qualifications for instructors teaching upper-division courses in the program — requiring advanced language proficiency and relevant graduate-level education — and would require the University of Utah to partner with all state universities to develop and maintain these courses using in-person or blended (partly synchronous online) instruction. If a state university cannot provide a qualified instructor to a local school district by April 1 each year, the district would be allowed to partner with and contract with a university from outside its normal service region instead. The bill also directs the State Board of Education to calculate the cost of expanding Utah's dual language proficiency assessments — which currently test students in grades 3 through 8 on speaking, listening, reading, and writing — to cover grades 3 through 12, and to report those cost estimates to the Legislature before its October 2026 meeting.