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Utah's public colleges and universities would be required under this bill to conduct a formal security risk assessment before approving any public event featuring an outside speaker, rating each event on a five-level threat scale based on factors such as documented threats, expected attendance, history of disruptions, and law enforcement intelligence — but explicitly not based on the speaker's viewpoint or political beliefs. Each threat level triggers specific security requirements, from basic campus police notification at level one up to multi-agency law enforcement coordination and counter-surveillance at level five, and the student organization or department sponsoring the event is responsible for paying security fees ranging from nothing at level one up to $50,000 at level five, as well as obtaining liability insurance of up to $5 million depending on the threat level assigned. Student organizations and other sponsoring groups can appeal their threat level assessment to the university president and then to the Board of Higher Education if they believe the process was biased, based on inaccurate information, or produced unreasonably high costs.