Utah / State / 2025 First Special Session

2025 Utah Laws, First Special Session, ch 8 Moved every Utah veteran higher education benefit from Title 53B into a new Title 53H

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Signed 2025-10-14

Renumbered Utah’s higher education provisions out of Title 53B and into a new Title 53H, carrying with them every veteran and survivor education benefit in the state. Resident student status, which contains the clause granting a veteran resident tuition "regardless of whether the military veteran served in Utah", moved to section 53H-11-202. The Purple Heart tuition waiver became section 53H-11-303, the Scott B. Lundell Military Survivors’ tuition waiver section 53H-11-308, the surplus-space enrolment provision for senior citizens and veterans section 53H-11-304, the Veterans Tuition Gap Program section 53H-11-413, credit for military service and training section 53H-3-703, and community college enrolment preference for veterans section 53H-3-1103. Tracked because the renumbering is invisible in the substance of any of those benefits and total in its effect on citations: every guide, institutional web page and departmental document citing chapter 53B-8 or 53B-13c for a Utah veteran education benefit now points at a repealed location. Two of the renumbered sections were then amended in the 2026 general session, section 53H-11-202 by chapter 180 and section 53H-11-303 by chapter 230, so the current text of both is later than the renumbering.