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State economic development efforts in Utah would be reorganized under this bill, which renames the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity back to the Governor's Office of Economic Development and updates references to that name throughout dozens of sections of Utah law. The bill would create a new Economic Development Council made up of representatives from state agencies, the Legislature, and other stakeholders, tasked with coordinating economic development programs across state government, helping shape statewide economic development strategy, and reporting periodically to the Legislature's Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee. It also adjusts the duties of the office's executive director and exempts the office from certain state procurement rules related to purchasing goods from the prison system's correctional industries program. Most other changes in the bill are technical, updating cross-references and terminology in existing law to match the office's new name without altering how those underlying programs function.