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The bill responds to operational issues identified by the Department of Corrections. \"There's really 5 changes that are occurring, different changes in the bill,\" said Brian Red, executive director of the Utah Department of Corrections, during the committee presentation.

SB 74 would (1) broaden the definition of \"offender\" so the current exception that allows a person on probation or parole to seek a name or gender-marker change on a birth certificate also explicitly includes incarcerated people, and it would bar an offender from petitioning a district court for a name change while incarcerated or while on probation or parole; (2) extend an existing limit of five GRAMA record requests per year (unless represented by counsel) to people on probation and parole as well as incarcerated people; (3) remove a statutory requirement that the department notify the sheriff or another law enforcement agency to conduct certain internal criminal investigations, aligning the statute with current practice of turning investigations over to the State Bureau of Investigation; (4) authorize the corrections department to collect revenue generated by tablets used by incarcerated people, modeled on existing authority for phone revenue, with the stated intent that revenue would fund programming and vocational training; and (5) update execution protocol language to remove sodium thiopental from the statute and permit \"one or more substances\" that will cause death without a substantial risk of severe pain.

On the first set of changes, Red said the bill will \"include offender, which includes anyone who is incarcerated or on probation or parole\" and will \"not allow an offender to petition a district court while incarcerated or on probation or parole to do a name change.\" On the tablet revenue proposal he said: \"Currently, we don't generate any revenue from our tablets. But we're looking at a pilot and looking at options for generating revenue...typically, that revenue goes back into programming for the incarcerated individuals.\" On lethal-injection language, Red explained the bill \"removes Sodium thiopental from the statute\" and replaces it with wording allowing a type and amount of drug \"that is sufficiently affected to cause death without substantial risk or severe pain.\" He noted past executions used pentobarbital.

Committee members asked clarifying questions about how tablet revenue would be governed and how the department administers investigations; Red said revenue from phones currently funds vocational training and programming and that the department typically refers employee criminal investigations to the State Bureau of Investigation.

The committee took three formal actions on the item during the hearing: adoption of a substitute, adoption of an amendment to that substitute, and a motion to favorably recommend the substituted and amended bill to the full Senate. All recorded procedural motions passed unanimously on voice votes.

The bill will go to the Senate floor for further consideration.

Votes at a glance: The committee adopted the first substitute and Amendment 1 to Sub 1 on voice votes and then voted to favorably recommend 1st Substitute SB 74, all motions passing unanimously per the committee record.

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Representative Wilcox, the bill's sponsor, told the committee that the omission of AI- or counterfeit-generated intimate images from the existing statute became apparent after recent cases and hearings. \"Counterfeit intimate images are a real problem,\" Wilcox said, noting testimony about cases in which such images were used to extort people and led to tragic outcomes. The sponsor urged the committee to add the language to the extortion statute to address the technology-driven form of harm.

Marlise Jones of the Victim Services Commission and Tom Ross of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice testified in support of the amendment. The committee moved the bill with a favorable recommendation on a unanimous voice vote.

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Senator Plumb, sponsor of the bill, said the measure is intended to identify the scale of substance use disorder among people in carceral settings and to help the state prepare for the Medicaid 1115 waiver, which would allow Medicaid coverage for healthcare in the 90 days prior to release. \"This is actually a requirement for us to be able to do that,\" Plumb said, describing the proposal as a brief screening (\"some of these can be done in as little as 5 to 7 minutes\") rather than a lengthy clinical assessment.

The sponsor said a fiscal note was prepared (the draft figure discussed in committee was about $211,000) and that staff were working with correctional health on clarifying what counts as a screening versus a full assessment.

Mark Moffett of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Association testified in support, urging the committee to adopt the bill because early identification tied to Medicaid coverage would allow jails and prisons to bill for treatment and support continuity of care at release.

Senator Brammer moved to favorably recommend SB 115 and the committee approved the motion unanimously.

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Senator Pitcher presented the bill, describing scenarios in which a respondent to a protective order \"will cut off the gas or the power of the protected person during the period in which they are subject to the protective order.\" The bill makes explicit that cutting off utilities or causing nonpayment to result in termination is prohibited for up to 60 days to give protected people time to put utilities in their own name and avoid retaliation.

Marlise Jones, director of the Victim Services Commission, testified in support, noting that abusers sometimes use utilities as a means of retaliation: \"One of the most common ways they did that was actually to call and try and disconnect utilities and or abandon payment responsibilities,\" she said. A member of the public, Elaine England, raised concerns about false allegations and potential unintended consequences, urging safeguards and consideration of reversals; committee members and the sponsor noted the bill's limited, criminal-protective-order scope and that the court \"shall include\" utility instructions in the protective order language.

Senator Escamilla moved to favorably recommend SB 123 and the committee passed the motion unanimously. Sponsor summation was waived; the bill will proceed to the Senate floor.

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Senator Karen Pitcher, the sponsor, told the committee the bill addresses cases in which an individual released after the initial statutory charging window later learns charges will be filed and finds themselves arrested on a warrant months after compliance with pretrial conditions. \"What the bill seeks to address is following that process, you may have an individual who was released rule 9...they have been completely compliant with pretrial services...the bill creates a procedure where we presume that a summons should be issued first to bring that person into court,\" Pitcher said.

Under the first substitute, the presumption in favor of issuing a summons can be overcome where prosecutors demonstrate good cause to seek a warrant — for example, if there's a risk to public safety or no known address — or where a prior summons failed or could not be served after good-faith efforts.

Public commenters included Mark Moffett of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, who described repeated instances in his practice where delayed charging followed by a warrant was disruptive to clients who had complied with pretrial requirements. \"For the folks who are not in trouble ... to have them rearrested again is incredibly disruptive,\" Moffett said. Jeff Beaman, representing the Statewide Association of Public Attorneys and Prosecutors, told the committee the association worked with the sponsor and that the substitute addresses prosecutors' concerns by retaining authority to seek warrants when appropriate and by adding a 60-day threshold and court justification for warrants in some circumstances. A third public commenter, defense attorney Steve Burton, gave examples of screening delays in some prosecutor offices and supported the policy to start with a summons when conditions allow.

Committee members pressed about why a summons presumption is appropriate; Pitcher argued that a warrant is an \"incredibly disruptive\" tool and that in the absence of articulable public-safety risks it is better practice to attempt service by summons first.

The committee adopted the first substitute and then voted to favorably recommend 1st Substitute SB 110 to the Senate floor on unanimous voice votes.

","The committee unanimously recommended favorable action on 1st Substitute SB 110, which would create a presumption in many cases that prosecutors should issue a summons before seeking a warrant when charges are filed after a prolonged delay following release under Rule 9.","actionData","errors"]

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