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Public construction projects in Utah would face new disclosure and compliance requirements for subcontractors under this bill, requiring them to give general contractors and property owners a list of current employees, estimated labor hours, and information about any second-tier subcontractors before starting work; subcontractors with a "zero estimated exposure" workers' compensation policy (meaning they've reported having no employees) would also have to disclose that policy in writing. Workers on these job sites would need to carry photo identification available for state inspection, and subcontractors would have to share employee names, partial Social Security numbers, and professional license numbers with the state Division of Professional Licensing upon request; general contractors and property owners would be required to keep this information for three years and turn it over to the state if asked. Separately, insurers would be required to have employers seeking a "zero estimated exposure" workers' compensation policy sign a sworn statement affirming they have no employees, with a warning that false statements are a crime, and the bill shifts several currently fixed interest rates and penalty amounts for unpaid unemployment insurance contributions to amounts the state Workforce Services division sets through administrative rulemaking rather than fixed by law. The bill also adds failure to comply with these new subcontractor disclosure rules to the legal definition of "unprofessional conduct" for licensed contractors, and includes a clause coordinating these changes with a related bill, H.B. 40, so that if both pass, the subcontractor disclosure requirements would ultimately be relocated into the construction trades licensing law rather than staying in this bill's new section.