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Utah's Governmental Immunity Act generally protects government agencies and their employees from lawsuits when carrying out official duties, and current law lists specific activities that qualify for this protection, including providing emergency medical assistance. This bill removes "providing emergency medical assistance" as its own listed protected activity and instead creates two new protections: immunity for a governmental entity and its employees when responding to a disaster or potential disaster, and immunity for first responders specifically when providing emergency medical services, without limiting that protection to services tied to any particular type of emergency. The bill also adds legal definitions for "emergency medical services" and "first responder" by referencing existing definitions elsewhere in Utah law. These changes would apply retroactively back to March 18, 1985, meaning they could affect how older claims are evaluated, not just future ones.