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Senate passes victims' rights constitutional declaration and approving statute with clarifying pretrial language
Summary
Lawmakers adopted S.J.R. 6 (constitutional victims' rights declaration) and passed S.B. 156 to implement those rights; the floor clarified pretrial procedures and recorded S.B. 156's vote as 22 ayes, 1 nay, 6 absent.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 18 approved S.J.R. 6, a constitutional declaration of victims' rights, and later passed S.B. 156 to set out statutory implementation details such as victim impact statements and hearing procedures.
Sponsor Senator Craig Peterson introduced S.B. 156 as implementing language for the victims' rights amendment, describing protections for victims, impact…
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