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Utah's system for dispatching tow trucks to accident scenes and impound calls would see several updates under this bill. Companies that provide dispatch technology to government towing programs would be barred from requiring tow truck operators to use their phones in ways that violate distracted-driving laws or to enter data into unauthorized databases, and neither dispatch vendors nor government towing entities could charge tow truck companies a fee simply for being dispatched, effectively removing the older fee structure tied to abandoned-vehicle costs. When a tow truck company is suspended or removed from a local government's towing rotation, the local government would now be required to notify the state, which would review the situation and decide whether the company should be removed from all towing rotations statewide; if the removed company shares any ownership with other tow truck companies, those companies would be removed from all state rotations as well. The bill also sets up a more detailed appeals process for companies contesting removal from a rotation.