Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah HB30: Indian Family Preservation Act Amendments
Status: Chaptered, February 27, 2026
This bill addresses the preservation of Indian families.
What the bill says
An act or attempted act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, incest, or molestation by an adult directed towards a child; (b) an act or attempted act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, incest, or molestation committed by a child towards another child if: (i) there is an indication of force or coercion; (ii) the children are related, as described in Subsection (39), including siblings by marriage while the marriage exists or by adoption; (iii) there have been repeated incidents of sexual contact between the two children, unless the children are 14 years old or older; or (iv) there is a disparity in chron.
From the introduced text:
an act or attempted act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, incest, or molestation by an adult directed towards a child; (b) an act or attempted act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, incest, or molestation committed by a child towards another child if: (i) there is an indication of force or coercion; (ii) the children are related, as described in Subsection (39), including siblings by marriage while the marriage exists or by adoption; (iii) there have been repeated incidents of sexual contact between the two children, unless the children are 14 years old or older; or (iv) there is a disparity in chronological age of four or more years between the two children; (c) engaging in any conduct with a child that would constitute an offense under any of the following, regardless of whether the individual who engages in the conduct is actually charged with, or convicted of, the offense: (i) Title 76, Chapter 5, Part 4, Sexual Offenses, except for Section 76-5-401 , if the alleged perpetrator of an offense described in Section 76-5-401 is a minor; (ii) child bigamy, Section 76-7-101.5 ; (iii) incest, Section 76-7-102 ; (iv) lewdness, Section 76-9-702 ; (v) sexual battery, Section 76-9-702.1 ; (vi) lewdness involving a child, Section 76-9-702.5 ; or (vii) voyeurism, Section 76-9-702.7 ; or (d) subjecting a child to participate in or …