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Senate outlines major rewrite of trafficking statutes; SB 30 sent to third reading after floor debate
Summary
Sponsor Senator Musselman described SB 30 as a comprehensive modernization of Utah’s trafficking statutes — clarifying definitions, narrowing overly broad language, and creating a tiered penalty structure — and the Senate voted to place the bill on third reading after the sponsor agreed to provide a crosswalk of changes.
Senator Musselman presented SB 30 as the result of extensive consultations with law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the attorney general’s office. He told colleagues that Utah’s trafficking statutes had become a "patchwork" of overlapping definitions and inconsistent culpability standards, which sometimes made it difficult to prosecute genuine…
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