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Under Utah's Fair Housing Act, it is currently unlawful for landlords to discriminate in housing based on a person's sex or gender identity. This bill adds a new exemption to that law, allowing private landlords, lessors, and property managers to designate shared housing — such as dormitories, boarding houses, and shared rentals where residents share a bedroom or bathroom — as single-sex, and to limit occupancy to individuals whose biological sex at birth matches that designation. The exemption applies only to private housing and does not extend to housing owned or operated by the state or local governments, or to housing where such a policy would conflict with federal law or federal funding conditions.