---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Discipline Amendments"
description: "School Discipline Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "Utah SB 170 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "School Personnel", "State Board of Education", "Student Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Escamilla, Luz"]
version_count: 19
action_count: 50
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-24T22:04:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:43:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc4f988e-e12c-4524-b788-04d4e77049bf"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0170.html"
source_hash: "030cca82961af0f14007362f0eac1f91ebb77ccf4d8f333bcff7ad2bb69ef43a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah SB 170 (2025) — School Discipline Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0170.xml)
2. **Amended 2/27/2025 11:02:852** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0170S02_2025-02-27_11-44-43.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/27/2025 11:02:852** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0170S02_2025-02-27_11-44-43.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0170 To SB0170S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0170S01 To SB0170S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0170S02 To SB0170S03.pdf)
7. **House Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0170S02.Hamd.2.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0170S02.Hamd.3.pdf)
9. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB170H10.pdf)
10. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB170H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB170H20.pdf)
12. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0170S02.Samd.1.pdf)
13. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB170S10.pdf)
14. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB170S10.pdf)
15. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB170S20.pdf)
16. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0170S01.xml)
17. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0170S02.xml)
18. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0170S03.xml)
19. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0170.xml)

## Sponsors

- Escamilla, Luz — primary (person)
- Wilcox, Ryan D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-24T22:04:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-24T22:04:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-27T16:35:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-27T18:16:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-28T18:16:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T14:43:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-30T22:00:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2025-02-05T00:42:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-05T00:45:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-05T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-11T22:04:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-11T22:09:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-11T22:11:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12T18:40:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-12T18:44:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-12T18:44:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-12T20:01:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T17:17:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T17:58:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T16:51:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T16:52:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T16:52:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T21:12:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:12:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-05T04:37:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T04:37:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T04:37:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T18:33:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-05T18:38:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-05T18:39:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-05T18:39:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-05T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-05T21:30:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-05T21:32:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:32:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T02:44:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T02:44:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:02:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T15:02:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-08T06:11:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-08T06:11:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:50:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:50:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:43:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc4f988e-e12c-4524-b788-04d4e77049bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).