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Utah's Infant at Work Program — which lets eligible state employees bring their infants (between six weeks and six months old) to work — was set to expire on June 30, 2026, but this bill would remove that expiration date and make the program permanent for Department of Health and Human Services employees, while allowing other executive branch agencies to opt in as well. An agency could join by having its head submit written notice to the Division of Human Resource Management, which would need to approve the request and could later revoke it if participation proved harmful to the program or the workplace; participating agencies would be required to adopt a written policy, approved by the division, spelling out how employees apply, how health and safety guidelines are met, and how the agency decides whether an individual employee's work environment and the agency's operational needs allow for an infant to be present, including provisions for revoking approval or allowing temporary telework. The division would be authorized to issue rules to administer the program statewide. Instead of expiring in mid-2026 as under current law, the program would now be scheduled for review and repeal on July 1, 2029, giving lawmakers a later checkpoint to evaluate it.