2025 bills / H.B. 539
H.B. 539 Criminal Justice Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes Utah's domestic violence laws, including the crime of committing domestic violence in a child's presence, the rules for bail and jail release agreements, and how police investigate domestic violence. It also changes the definitions of domestic violence and cohabitant, and bars a parent from waiving jail release conditions when the minor child is the alleged victim.
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Official description
- defines terms
- amends the requirements for the adult sentencing and supervision length guidelines to address domestic violence offenses
- modifies the crime for the commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child
- addresses the right to bail for a domestic violence offense
- modifies the definition of domestic violence
- amends the requirements for a peace officer investigating domestic violence
- modifies the definition of cohabitant
- provides that a jail release agreement may not prohibit an individual arrested or cited for the commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child from communicating with a minor child in certain circumstances
- prohibits a parent from waiving the conditions of a jail release agreement if the minor child is the alleged victim and the parent was arrested or cited for the qualifying offense
- clarifies cross-references to child abuse offenses
- makes technical and conforming changes
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- An alert the day H.B. 539 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 539 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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