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Ballot initiative and referendum petitions in Utah currently require signers to attest that they "have" personally read the entire statement included in the petition packet, and require signature gatherers to certify their belief that each signer "has" read the law being proposed or challenged; this bill would soften that language so signers instead attest that they "had an opportunity to" read the statement, and gatherers instead certify their belief that signers "had an opportunity to" read the law. The bill also allows petition packets to be bound with a spiral binder in addition to the currently allowed methods, and it explicitly permits someone gathering signatures to temporarily remove an individual signature sheet from a packet while collecting signatures, so long as the sheet is rebound to the packet immediately after that round of signature-gathering is finished. These changes apply across the various initiative and referendum processes — statewide and local, initiatives and referenda — governed by Utah's election code.