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This bill updates how the Utah Department of Health and Human Services collects, manages, and shares health data. It restructures the department's planning requirements into three components — a strategic plan, a data management plan, and a data analytics and dissemination plan — and adds new data security requirements, including encryption of identifiable health data and adoption of federal security standards. The bill also expands the circumstances under which the department can share health data internally and with local health departments, mental health authorities, and substance abuse authorities, while prohibiting the sharing of direct identifiers like names, social security numbers, and birthdates in most of those cases. It also extends the life of the Utah Health Data Authority and its oversight committee by ten years, to 2036.