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Utah law currently gives colleges and universities limited authority to regulate firearms on campus, mainly restricted to establishing a single secure hearing room and allowing dormitory residents to request roommates without concealed carry permits. This bill would expand that authority substantially, directing the state Board of Higher Education to let individual institutions adopt their own rules on carrying or possessing firearms, up to and including a full ban on campus — though schools could not restrict certain legally exempt individuals, such as law enforcement, and could not use these rules to override the specific dormitory restrictions described below. The bill would also give institutions the power to strip concealed, provisional, or temporary permit holders of their current automatic right to carry on campus, by allowing schools to adopt policies prohibiting permit holders from carrying dangerous weapons on institution grounds. Separately, the bill would make it a crime — a class A misdemeanor for a firearm or a class B misdemeanor for other dangerous weapons — to carry, possess, or store any dangerous weapon in a campus dormitory, with no exception for permit holders, and it would clarify that a dorm room does not count as a person's "residence" for purposes of the general legal right to keep firearms where one lives.