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Utah's public records law, known as GRAMA, would see numerous changes affecting how government agencies handle records requests and manage recordkeeping. If passed, this bill would require the state archives division to create a one-page plain-language summary of records law for government employees, and would require agencies with their own records policies to develop supplemental guidance and provide it to staff annually and to new hires. It would update definitions used throughout the law (including narrowing who counts as a "media representative" for records-request purposes and adding a "reasonable specificity" standard requiring requesters to clearly describe the records they seek), modify fees and deadlines for responding to records requests, expand who qualifies as an "at-risk government employee" to include certain federal workers, and require agencies to conduct annual reviews of their records retention practices. The bill would also make it a crime to destroy a government record with the intent to avoid disclosing it in response to a pending records request, and would adjust rules governing which records are automatically excluded from public disclosure, including changes to how education records and certain health records are treated under the law.