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Utah's court system would see two changes under this bill. Starting January 1, 2027, the Judicial Council—the body that oversees Utah's courts—would be authorized to create specialized divisions within district courts to handle debt collection and eviction cases; once such a division is created, the Council would be required to allocate sufficient staff and resources to it, and these cases would automatically be routed to that division for pretrial and post-judgment processing, regardless of normal venue rules, only moving to a local court venue if the case goes to trial or requires certain evidentiary hearings. Separately, the bill changes how the Appellate Court Nominating Commission handles multiple simultaneous vacancies on the same appellate court, requiring it to submit five additional candidate names to the governor for each extra vacancy, rather than the one additional name currently required.