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This bill reorganizes and expands the Legislature's oversight of state agency rulemaking — the process by which agencies create regulations that carry the force of law. It renames the "Rules Review and General Oversight Committee" to simply the "General Oversight Committee," expands its membership from 10 to 13 legislators, and allows members to be removed at the discretion of the legislative leaders who appoint them rather than serving fixed two-year terms. The bill broadens the committee's authority to review any "legislative issue," receive and investigate whistleblower complaints about waste, mismanagement, abuse of authority, or unethical conduct by state employees, and close meetings when discussing pending litigation or whistleblower complaints, while also removing the governor's existing authority to revive administrative rules that the Legislature has voted not to reauthorize. It also makes numerous related updates throughout Utah law wherever the old committee name is referenced, and adjusts procedures the Office of Administrative Rules and state agencies must follow when making, reviewing, or reporting on administrative rules.