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This proposed constitutional amendment would change how Utah fills judicial vacancies, and voters would have the final say on it in the next general election. Under current law, the Governor must select a judge from a list of at least three candidates certified by a Judicial Nominating Commission, must act within 30 days, and if the Governor misses that deadline, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court makes the appointment instead. This resolution would remove all three of those requirements: the Governor could still ask a commission for a list of candidates but would not be bound by it, could appoint any constitutionally qualified person, would face no deadline to act, and the Chief Justice would no longer have any backup authority to fill the seat. The Senate would still need to approve any judicial appointment by majority vote within 60 days, but the independent commission's role would shift from a required screening step to an optional one the Governor could bypass entirely.