Cox said he paused, contacted the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jordan Teuscher, R-South Jordan, and got assurance that the bill was intended to provide youth more access to sports, not less.
Gov. Spencer Cox talks in Salt Lake City on the last day of the legislative session, Friday, March 3, 2023.Gov. Spencer Cox said Thursday that he intends to sign a bill that some say could exclude undocumented children and teens from participating in sports and other extracurricular activities.would require someone interested in playing sports or participating in an extracurricular activity at a private or public school to provide certain identifying documentation.
“I am planning to the sign the bill,” Cox said Thursday during his monthly news conference. “But what I did was I got a promise from the bill’s sponsor that we would look at this over the next month and we would talk to all the high schools, all the middle schools in the state. And if there are students who would be impacted by this, we will call a special session to come in and change the bill.
Alejandro Callejas participated in sports as a high-schooler in Utah, including football, soccer and swimming. He was also on the debate team. He was able to participate in those activities unencumbered, with no intervention from the state government or the Utah High School Activities Association.
“This would further marginalize the undocumented community and young folks as well who have already been stigmatized by their status.”
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