This bill modifies requirements for social studies education and establishes open education resources.
This bill:
- requires the state superintendent to identify and develop high-quality open educational resource instructional materials;
- requires social studies instruction on American self-governance and comparative government systems;
- requires instruction from documents influencing America's founding and literary thought;
- requires sourcing of English language arts assessment passages from primary source documents where appropriate;
- requires instruction on the roles and responsibilities of government officials;
- allows local education agencies to determine whether applied crafts and technical arts courses meet fine arts credit requirements;
- requires American constitutional government and citizenship to be taught as two distinct semester courses;
- requires United States history to be taught as two distinct semester courses;
- prohibits students from taking the same semester course twice to meet graduation requirements;
- requires literacy coaches to support the integration of social studies content into literacy instruction;
- requires regular social studies instruction for elementary grades;
- allows social studies instruction to be delivered through integrated instruction with English language arts and mathematics;
- requires implementation of elementary social studies requirements by July 1, 2031;
- repeals an adult education citizenship test and certain required plans;
- defines terms; and
- makes technical changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 53E-4-202
Substitute #1: 53E-4-202
Amended 2/13/2026 10:02:16: 53E-3-505, 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Substitute #2: 53E-3-505, 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Substitute #3: 53E-3-505, 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Substitute #4: 53E-3-505, 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Substitute #5: 53E-3-505, 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Enrolled: 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253
Substitute #6: 53E-3-1002, 53E-3-1004, 53E-4-202, 53E-4-204, 53E-4-303, 53G-10-302, 53G-10-307, 63I-2-253