republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/sb-137.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Course Choice Empowerment"
description: "Course Choice Empowerment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Utah SB 137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Education Grant Programs", "Home Schooling", "K-12 Education", "Online Learning and/or Technology", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullimore, Kirk A."]
version_count: 21
action_count: 55
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T17:50:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T16:21:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dde560ff-ddf7-42a9-a274-a86cbddfca34"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0137.html"
source_hash: "0df6f19243ef371c06eb7507901f7dcddfc51d5ea5194bc5d9ac2190a5a09e9d"
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 137 (2025) — Course Choice Empowerment

## 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/SB0137.xml)
2. **Amended 3/5/2025 13:03:906** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0137S02_2025-03-05_13-46-38.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 3/5/2025 13:03:906** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0137S02_2025-03-05_13-46-38.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0137 To SB0137S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0137S01 To SB0137S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0137S02 To SB0137S03.pdf)
7. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0137S03 To SB0137S04.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0137S02.Hamd.1.pdf)
9. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB137H10.pdf)
10. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB137H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB137H20.pdf)
12. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0137.Samd.1.pdf)
13. **Senate Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0137.Samd.2.pdf)
14. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB137S10.pdf)
15. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB137S10.pdf)
16. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB137S20.pdf)
17. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0137S01.xml)
18. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0137S02.xml)
19. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0137S03.xml)
20. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0137S04.xml)
21. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0137.xml)

## Sponsors

- Cullimore, Kirk A. — primary (person)
- Moss, Jefferson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T17:50:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T17:50:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:59:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T21:20:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-23T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T22:42:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-31T18:31:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-31T18:31:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-10T21:33:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-10T21:33:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-18T17:36:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-18T17:50:00+00:00** Senate/ failed `failure`
- **2025-02-18T17:50:00+00:00** Senate/ filed `filing`
- **2025-02-19T17:10:00+00:00** Senate/ motion to reconsider
- **2025-02-19T17:10:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T18:14:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-28T01:39:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-28T01:39:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-28T01:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T18:48:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T18:50:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T18:51:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-28T19:54:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T21:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-03T18:23:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T21:57:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-04T21:58:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T04:18:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T04:18:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-07T17:41:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T17:41:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07T17:41:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07T17:44:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T17:45:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-07T18:40:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T18:43:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-07T18:44:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T18:44:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T21:23:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T21:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T01:01:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T01:01:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:42:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T05:42:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T15:38:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T15:38:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-14T14:23:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-14T14:23:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T16:21:00+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/dde560ff-ddf7-42a9-a274-a86cbddfca34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).