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Several changes to Utah's animal damage prevention laws are packaged together in this bill. It allows the Department of Agriculture and Food to issue permits to landowners and licenses to pilots for shooting coyotes from aircraft to protect farms and ranches, with the Agricultural and Wildlife Damage Prevention Board setting the rules for pilot qualifications, aircraft requirements, and reporting — and anyone who obtains a permit or license assumes full personal liability for any accident or injury that results. The bill also gives the board authority to set annual predator control fees on sheep, goats, cattle, and turkey breeding stock, replacing previously fixed fee ranges with amounts the board determines each year. On feral swine, the bill tightens enforcement by elevating several offenses — including hunting, transporting, or possessing live feral swine — to third degree felonies, and it allows peace officers to seize and forfeit vehicles used to commit those crimes.