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Utah already prohibits entities controlled by the governments of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia — called "restricted foreign entities" — from buying land in the state. This bill tightens that law in several ways: it lowers the ownership threshold that makes a company count as a restricted foreign entity from 51% to 25%, meaning a company only needs to be 25% owned by one of those foreign governments to trigger the prohibition; it requires the Department of Public Safety to send a formal letter to any entity it suspects of being a restricted foreign entity, giving that entity 30 days to prove it doesn't qualify; and it allows the department to fine non-responsive entities $500 per day until they reply, while also requiring the attorney general to work with the state's Division of Facilities and Construction Management to carry out any forced land sale.