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H.B. 245 Enrolled

                 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AMENDMENTS

                 
1999 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Gary F. Cox

                  Jackie Biskupski
Perry L. Buckner



                  AN ACT RELATING TO THE COHABITANT ABUSE PROCEDURES ACT; CLARIFYING
                  THAT THE CHARGE AND PUNISHMENT FOR A SUBSEQUENT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
                  OFFENSE IS ENHANCED.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      77-36-1.1, as last amended by Chapter 244, Laws of Utah 1996
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 77-36-1.1 is amended to read:
                       77-36-1.1. Enhancement of penalty for subsequent domestic violence offenses.
                      (1) When an offender is convicted of any domestic violence offense in Utah, or is
                  convicted in any other state, or in any district, possession, or territory of the United States, of an
                  offense that would be a domestic violence offense under Utah law, and is within a five-year period
                  after the conviction subsequently [convicted of] charged with a domestic violence offense that is
                  a misdemeanor, the [penalty] offense charged and the punishment for that subsequent offense [is]
                  may be enhanced by one degree above the [penalty] offense and punishment otherwise provided
                  in the statutes described in Section 77-36-1 .
                      (2) For purposes of this section, a plea in abeyance is considered a conviction.


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