AI-generated summary, not yet reviewed by Better Utah staff. Please consult the bill text.

Public school library policies would be reshaped under this bill, which requires every Utah school district and charter school to adopt written policies for building library collections and for handling requests to remove or relocate materials, with library development overseen by a teacher librarian or certified language arts teacher. These policies must be posted online, list all library materials, and be reviewed at least every five years; they must also state that books cannot be excluded solely because of the author's background or because of political, ideological, or religious objections, while requiring that selections weigh age-appropriateness alongside educational value using specific criteria. Parents, teacher-librarians, and teachers could formally request reconsideration of specific materials (other than material already covered by existing "sensitive material" rules) by certifying they reviewed the entire work; the same item could not be challenged more than once every four years, materials would stay available during a pending review, and anyone who loses three challenges in one school year could not file further requests that year, with a link to this reconsideration policy also added to the state's existing online parent information portal. The bill also bars schools from retaliating against staff who refuse to remove challenged materials before a review is complete, prohibits schools from requiring digital resource providers to track individual students' use of digital library resources or curate resources at an individual student level, and requires digital resource providers to offer tools letting schools remove specific articles, issues, or titles without cutting off access to the rest of a database.