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Utah law currently allows charter schools to give enrollment preference to students who live within two miles of the school when the student's assigned public school is overcrowded. This bill would add a new, separate preference option allowing charter schools to also give priority to students who live anywhere within the same city, county, or other political subdivision as the charter school, as long as that student's assigned public school is also operating at or above capacity. The bill also removes an outdated provision that had given enrollment preference to students who left a charter school for online or home schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, since that preference applied only to past school years and is no longer needed. These changes would take effect July 1, 2026.