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Utah's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, created in 2024, runs a program that allows companies to test AI technologies under special agreements with the state that temporarily adjust regulatory requirements. This bill continues to expand that program by creating a new "joint interpretation agreement" option, which lets a company, the office, and relevant agencies formally clarify how existing laws apply to a specific AI technology, in addition to the existing "regulatory mitigation agreements" that can reduce penalties or extend cure periods during a testing period called a "demonstration period." The bill extends who can participate in these agreements beyond state agencies to include courts, schools, universities, and local governments, and requires agreements to spell out consumer disclosures and reporting requirements while directing the office to conduct regular audits of participants' use of the technology. It also removes the previous open invitation-and-application process for the general "learning laboratory" research program, changes the program's stated goal from encouraging AI "development" to encouraging "responsible deployment," and allows agreements to be extended up to two times in 12-month increments rather than just once.