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This resolution directs Utah's Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program (PEHP) — the health insurance program covering state employees — to make non-opioid pain medications no harder to access than opioid medications, starting with the 2027 plan year. Specifically, PEHP would need to include at least one non-opioid alternative drug for every opioid drug on its covered medication list, and could not impose stricter copays, prior authorization requirements, or other access limits on non-opioid drugs than it applies to opioids. The resolution directs PEHP to carry out these changes within a $150,000 budget, and to request additional funding from the Legislature if actual costs exceed that amount.