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Utah's fraudulent deeds law defines key terms used to identify and address deeds that are filed without the property owner's authorization, such as "interest holder," "record interest holder," and what counts as a "deed" in the first place. An earlier version of this bill made only minor wording tweaks for clarity, but the current version makes more substantive changes: it narrows the definitions of "interest holder" and "record interest holder" so that a person must hold the specific property interest that a particular deed claims to convey or affect, rather than simply holding some interest in the property generally. The bill also adds reinvestment fee covenants (a type of recorded property agreement) to the list of documents that do not count as a "deed" under this law, alongside existing exclusions for HOA and condominium governing documents. These changes could affect who qualifies for legal protections against fraudulent property transfers under this chapter of Utah law.