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Utah House approves narrowed age-gap limits for consensual activity, removes first‑offender registry provision
Summary
The House passed first-substitute HB179 on Feb. 22, 2016, amending age-difference rules for consensual sexual activity involving 14- and 15-year-olds to a four-year limit and removing first-offender registration for offenders under age 21; the bill passed 66–8.
The Utah House on Feb. 22 approved first-substitute House Bill 179, which narrows the allowable age-difference in consensual sexual activity cases involving 14- and 15-year-olds and removes an automatic registry consequence for certain first offenders under 21.
Representative Nelson, the bill sponsor, described the measure…
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