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Under Utah law, controlled substances are organized into five schedules based on their potential for harm and accepted medical use, with Schedule I reserved for substances considered most dangerous and having no accepted medical purpose. Currently, if the federal government moves a pharmaceutical version of a Schedule I drug to a lower schedule — meaning it has been approved as a medicine — Utah's schedule does not automatically update to match. This bill adds a provision stating that when the federal government reclassifies a pharmaceutical form of a Schedule I substance out of Schedule I, Utah's scheduling automatically follows the federal change without requiring separate action by the state legislature.