2025 bills / H.B. 92
H.B. 92 Private Individual Force and Detention Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes Utah's rules on when a private person may use force to defend property and when they may detain someone, replacing the word "arrest" with "temporary detention" for such cases. It also limits civil and criminal liability for private individuals who temporarily detain someone under certain conditions, and sets procedures for turning that person over to law enforcement.
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Official description
- amends the circumstances under which a private individual may use force in defense of personal property
- amends the circumstances under which a private individual may lawfully detain another individual, including removing the use of the term "arrest"
- provides a limitation on civil and criminal liability for a private individual who temporarily detains another individual under certain circumstances
- amends the force in arrest statute to provide that the statute applies to law enforcement officers and creates a new statute for when force can be used by a private individual when making a temporary detention
- amends procedures that govern the subsequent arrest and transportation of an individual who has been temporarily detained by another private individual
- adds a coordination clause between this bill and S.B. 79, Technical Code Amendments, to provide that the changes to Section 77-7-3 will supersede the changes to that section in S.B. 79
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 92 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 92 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how