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The Guest Worker Program and the Utah Pilot Sponsored Resident Immigrant Program are two immigration initiatives that Utah's Legislature created in 2011 but never actually put into operation; this bill would permanently repeal both programs, along with the employee verification rules that were written to go along with the Guest Worker Program. Because these programs will now never take effect, the bill also cancels a scheduled repeal of Utah's existing Private Employer Verification Act (which requires private employers to check workers' legal status) that had been set to occur once the Guest Worker Program launched, and it eliminates an Identity Theft Victims Restricted Account that had been created to take effect only if that same program started. Separately, the bill removes a current requirement that college students who lack lawful immigration status file a sworn statement with their college affirming that they have applied, or will apply, to legalize their immigration status before they can qualify for in-state tuition rates. The remainder of the bill makes technical, non-substantive updates to numbering and cross-references in other sections of Utah law that were connected to these repealed programs.