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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 trigger the transfer of that case to one of these three-judge panels, at which point the original court must stop acting on the case. The resolution also sets rules for how parties can seek to remove or disqualify individual judges on such a panel, with the presiding officer of the Judicial Council overseeing those requests rather than a standard reviewing judge. Parties in cases before a three-judge panel retain the right to request one judge change per side, but the panel itself stays intact — only the individual judge is replaced through a random selection process.