53H-4-213.1. Educational telecommunications -- Definitions.

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Effective 10/14/2025

(1)As used in Sections 53H-4-213.1 through 53H-4-213.7 :

(a)"Digital resource" means a digital or online library resource, including a database.

(b)"Digital resource provider" means an entity that offers a digital resource to customers for license or sale.

(c)"Education Advisory Council" means the Utah Education Advisory Council created in Section 53H-4-213.6 .

(d)"Obscene or pornographic material" means material that:

(i)an average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest in sex;

(ii)is patently offensive in the description or depiction of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, or excretion; and

(iii)taken as a whole does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

(e)"Telehealth" means the electronic transfer, exchange, or management of related data for diagnosis, treatment, and consultation, and educational, public health, or other related purposes.

(f)"Telehealth Advisory Council" means the Utah Telehealth Advisory Council created in Section 53H-4-213.5 .

(g)"Utah Education and Telehealth Network," or "UETN," means a consortium and partnership between public and higher education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and health care providers, that is created in Section 53H-4-213.4 .

(2)The Legislature finds and determines the following:

(a)the University of Utah's Dolores Dore' Eccles Broadcast Center is the statewide public broadcasting and telecommunications facility for education in Utah;

(b)the center shall provide services to citizens of the state in cooperation with higher and public education, state and local government, and private industry;

(c)distribution services provided through the center shall include KUED - TV, KUER - FM, and KUEN - TV;

(d)KUED - TV and KUER - FM are licensed to the University of Utah;

(e)the Utah Education and Telehealth Network's broadcast entity, KUEN - TV, is licensed to the Utah Board of Higher Education and, together with UETN, is operated on behalf of the state's systems of public and higher education;

(f)all the entities referred to in Subsection (2)(c) are under the administrative supervision of the University of Utah, subject to the authority and governance of the Utah Board of Higher Education and

(g)this section neither regulates nor restricts a privately owned company in the distribution or dissemination of educational programs.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8 , 2025 Special Session 1