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This joint resolution updates Utah's Rules of Civil Procedure to accommodate a new type of court structure called a "district court panel" — a group of three district court judges convened together to hear and decide a single case. It allows the Attorney General, Governor, or Legislature to file a notice within 45 days of a lawsuit being filed (or amended) to request that a case be transferred to one of these three-judge panels, at which point the original court must stop taking any further action and transfer the case. The resolution also sets out how parties can seek to disqualify an individual judge on such a panel — with the presiding officer of the Judicial Council reviewing those requests instead of a standard reviewing judge — and clarifies that parties may not challenge the panel as a whole, only an individual judge on it. Parties before a three-judge panel keep the right to request one judge change per side (or by unanimous agreement of all parties), but in each case the panel itself remains intact and only the individual judge is replaced through a random selection process.