The bill's sponsor said he worked with librarians to smooth over problems the bill faced last year — including having the state of Utah pay for background checks for employees in smaller library systems.
The bill would make library systems set policies for employees’ background checks, or lose state funding.
After a brief discussion Thursday morning, the House Education Committee unanimously voted to move the bill forward. Dan Johnson, a retired school principal, introduced a version of this bill in 2022, but it never left committee. Since then, Johnson told The Tribune, he met with librarians statewide to rewrite the bill to a point where they might support it.
The bill specifies that Utah’s smallest counties, designated fifth- and sixth-class by population, be given the financial assistance for paying for background checks. The sixth-class counties in Utah are Daggett, Piute, Wayne and Rich; the fifth-class counties are Garfield, Beaver, Kane, Grand and Emery.
“From a large library perspective, you might look at those costs and say, ‘Oh, that’s nothing,’ but when you’re running a small rural library, literally every dollar counts,” Cummings said.
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