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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 would add an exemption 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, using the definition of biological sex found elsewhere in state law. This exemption would apply only to private housing and would not extend to housing owned or operated by the state or local governments, nor to situations where such a policy would conflict with federal law or federal funding requirements. The bill also makes a number of technical wording updates throughout the Fair Housing Act's definitions section, such as replacing the term "person" with "individual" in various places, without changing who is protected from discrimination.