Republicans in the Utah Legislature tried passing a de facto ban on pride flags in schools during the final hours of the 2024 general session.
The Utah Senate voted down the last-minute attempt to have lawmakers designated which flags school officials and employees can display in classrooms.
On Friday, Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, gutted HB477 — which specified how schools should deal with employees who are the subject of a criminal investigation and had— and replaced it with a specific list of which flags teachers would be allowed to display in their classrooms. The legislation also would have allowed parents to sue in certain situations.
“We say we believe in local control, yet here we are micromanaging our schools again,” she told her Senate colleagues. “We keep saying we love our teachers — and yet here we have another bill that makes our teachers afraid to teach what they think is appropriate.”A legal analysis from legislative counsel obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune says the hastily substituted bill could violate free speech protections provided by the U.S. and Utah State Constitutions.
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