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This resolution amends Utah's Rules of Civil Procedure to establish procedures for a new "district court panel" — a group of three district court judges that can be convened to hear a single case. It allows the Attorney General, Governor, or Legislature to trigger this three-judge process by filing a notice within 45 days of a lawsuit being filed, at which point the originally assigned judge must stop acting and transfer the case to the panel. The resolution also sets rules for how parties can request a judge change on such a panel — each side gets one such request as a matter of right, filed within seven days of learning which judges are assigned — and specifies that if a judge on the panel is disqualified or changed, only that individual judge is replaced rather than the entire panel being reconvened. Separately, the resolution updates rules around transferring civil cases to Utah's Business and Chancery Court, a specialized court for business disputes, allowing any party to request such a transfer within 21 days of appearing in the case, with the district court required to grant it unless doing so would harm the interests of justice.