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Utah's occupational and professional licensing laws, found in Title 58, would be updated in numerous ways under this bill, mostly through technical cleanup rather than major policy shifts. The bill rewrites gendered pronouns and outdated phrasing throughout dozens of licensing statutes covering professions from architecture and podiatry to massage therapy and substance abuse counseling, and it fixes typographical errors and inconsistent cross-references across the licensing code. It also creates a new "legacy cosmetology/barbering license" for people who already hold both a cosmetology and a barbering license, letting them keep practicing both under one combined credential. Beyond these mostly technical changes, the bill makes several substantive tweaks: it extends from 30 to 90 days the deadline for the state to tell someone whether a past criminal conviction would block them from getting a professional license, adds new licensing categories (including behavioral health specialists) to the list of professions subject to criminal background checks, allows licensing boards to require closer supervision of workers on temporary training permits, and adds a new rule barring licensed professionals from using contracts to stop customers from filing complaints against them with regulators.