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Senate advances substitute bill tightening public-nudity rules after heated debate
Summary
Senators advanced 1st substitute S.B. 244, a measure to expand Utah's lewdness statute to prohibit public nudity and adopt a 'bikini' standard, after extended debate over constitutional risk, fiscal exposure and local control; the bill was placed on the third-reading calendar.
Senators on the floor advanced first substitute Senate Bill 244, a measure presented by Senator Taylor that would expand Utah’s criminal lewdness laws to expressly prohibit public nudity and adopt a definition similar to one upheld in federal cases cited by the sponsor.
Taylor told colleagues the bill is modeled on an Indiana statute and framed its purpose as protecting "societal order and morality," while adding constitutional exceptions for breastfeeding, bona fide artistic or theatrical performances and works with serious…
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