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Utah law already voids most "transfer fee covenants," which are agreements requiring a fee to be paid every time a property changes hands, though some older covenants recorded before 2010 could continue if the holder filed proper legal notices. This bill would expand the legal definition of a "wrongful lien" — a document improperly recorded against a property — to include transfer fee covenant notices filed when the underlying covenant was already unenforceable, such as when a higher-priority mortgage was foreclosed, the required notice was never properly filed, or the covenant had already been terminated or released. If a transfer fee covenant notice meets this new wrongful lien definition, the notice itself would be legally invalid. The bill also specifies that county recorders are not required to investigate or determine whether a given notice qualifies as a wrongful lien when accepting it for recording.