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Utah's conflict of interest disclosure requirements for elected and appointed officials would expand under this bill to require two new categories of information: any unresolved federal or state tax lien of $500 or more that has gone unpaid for more than two years, and any felony or misdemeanor criminal conviction, with exceptions for class C misdemeanors, minor traffic offenses, reversed or vacated convictions, and expunged records. These disclosure requirements apply to state constitutional officers, legislators, State Board of Education members, and candidates for municipal, county, school board, and special district offices, who must file this information on the state's public disclosure website or with local filing officers. The bill also changes state law that limits when employers can ask about criminal history during hiring, by excluding from the definition of "applicant" anyone who is already required to file one of these conflict of interest disclosures, meaning those individuals would not be covered by those job-applicant protections.