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House approves custodial-interference changes after debate on enforcement and penalties
Summary
First-substitute HB197 clarifies custodial-interference definitions, lowers penalties for most offenses, shortens recidivism window to two years and moves many cases to Justice/JP courts; final passage 62-10.
The Utah House on Feb. 5 approved first-substitute HB197, a bill the sponsor described as a ‘‘parental rights’’ measure to provide relief for noncustodial parents who are denied court-ordered visitation and to make custodial-interference easier to prosecute while reducing the penalties for most offenses.
Representative Carl Wimmer, the sponsor, said the current statute is ‘‘a law on the books that is just completely…
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