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This bill would establish in state law that individual legislators may introduce bills and cast votes according to their own judgment and conscience, subject to existing legislative rules. It would also reorganize and update the rules governing what kinds of technical corrections the Legislature's legal staff — the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel — can make to bills and the Utah Code after legislation passes, moving those rules into a new dedicated section of law. The updated authority would add the ability to fix erroneous statutory history in a bill's introductory summary and correct the names of officers and funds, while removing the requirement to fix mismatches between a bill's summary and its actual legal text, and it would explicitly prohibit any correction that changes the actual meaning or legal effect of a law.