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Utah's citizen initiative process lets residents propose new laws by collecting voter signatures, either to send the proposal to the Legislature for a vote or to place it directly on the statewide ballot. This bill would double the signature threshold required to send an initiative to the Legislature, raising it from 4% to 8% of active voters statewide, with that same 8% also required in at least 26 of Utah's 29 Senate districts, matching the existing requirement for sending an initiative directly to voters. It would also remove the current requirement that organizers gather an additional round of signatures if the Legislature rejects their initiative; instead, a rejected initiative would automatically go to a vote of the people at the next general election without further signature-gathering.