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Senate passes adoption restrictions targeting convictions or civil findings on specified statutes
Summary
Senate Bill 2 27, restricting adoption where a person has been convicted of or found by preponderance to have violated listed statutes (including bigamy), passed after intense committee‑of‑the‑whole debate featuring social‑service testimony and constitutional concerns about due process.
Senate Bill 2 27, which would prohibit adoption by anyone convicted of—or found by a court by a preponderance of evidence to have violated—certain specified statutes (including bigamy), passed the Utah Senate after heated debate and public testimony.
Opponents in a committee of the whole warned the bill appeared tailored to affect a pending Supreme Court…
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