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Under Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), which governs what government documents the public can access, this bill makes two substantive changes to how certain records are classified. First, it expands and clarifies the list of financial records that are public, explicitly naming budgets, financial accounts, vouchers, grants, financial reports, general ledgers, and payments to contractors or vendors as records the public has a right to access. Second, it allows government agencies to classify as private any portion of a record that reveals whether a specific taxpayer receives a property tax exemption, deferral, abatement, or other tax relief program. The bill also removes victim names from the definition of what an "initial contact report" — the first written account police create at the scene — may include, meaning that information is no longer automatically part of the public-facing report.