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Legislation addressing state energy governance would expand the five-member Utah Energy Council to seven members, adding two additional appointees with specific backgrounds in economic development, utility regulation, bonding, or energy law, and would replace the current single-chair leadership with a co-chair system split between the governor's designee and a legislatively chosen council member. The bill would also formally designate the council as a "state energy financing institution," a status that could open access to certain federal energy loan and financing programs. More significantly, the bill would allow the council to create a new political subdivision called the Utah Energy Infrastructure Service District, governed by the same people who sit on the council, which could acquire, own, and operate power generation, transmission, and storage facilities within a designated service area and contract with private companies to run those facilities for up to 40 years; however, the district would be barred from selling electricity directly to retail customers or operating within any area already served by a licensed utility or municipal power provider. To pay for infrastructure, the district could issue revenue bonds backed only by its own revenues rather than state tax dollars, which would not count against the state's constitutional debt limit but would require review and approval by the State Finance Review Commission before issuance; district property would be exempt from ordinary property taxes, though private operators using district facilities would pay a state privilege tax, and the district itself could impose a small privilege tax for its own operations, with the district subject to dissolution either by its own board or by future legislative action.