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House establishes identity‑theft unit in Attorney General's office; expands remit to electronic fraud

Utah House of Representatives · January 31, 2008
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Summary

House Bill 95 creates a document-fraud/identity-theft unit in the Attorney General's office with a fiscal note of $275,100 and accepts a sponsor-supported amendment to cover electronic media. The House passed the first substitute unanimously and sent it to the Senate.

Representative Karen Morgan told the House identity theft and document fraud are widespread and that HB95 would create a document-fraud unit in the Attorney General's Office to prosecute identity fraud; she cited a fiscal note of $275,100 to staff the unit with an attorney and an investigator.…

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