Representative Ken Ivory proposes the following substitute bill:


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PENALTY FOR FALSE STATEMENT DURING DRUG

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ARREST

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2023 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Ken Ivory

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Senate Sponsor: Derrin R. Owens

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8     LONG TITLE
9     General Description:
10          This bill modifies offenses related to giving false information to law enforcement
11     officers.
12     Highlighted Provisions:
13          This bill:
14          ▸     makes it a crime for an actor arrested for a crime to falsely claim the actor ingested
15     drugs before the arrest; and
16          ▸     makes technical and conforming changes.
17     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
18          None
19     Other Special Clauses:
20          None
21     Utah Code Sections Affected:
22     AMENDS:
23          76-8-506, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 92
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25     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
26          Section 1. Section 76-8-506 is amended to read:
27          76-8-506. Providing false information to law enforcement officers, government
28     agencies, or specified professionals.
29          [A person] An actor is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if [he]:
30          (1) the actor knowingly gives or causes to be given false information to [any] a peace
31     officer or [any] a state or local government agency or personnel with a purpose of inducing the
32     recipient of the information to believe that another person has committed an offense;
33          (2) the actor knowingly gives or causes to be given to [any] a peace officer, [any] a
34     state or local government agency or personnel, or to [any person] an individual licensed in this
35     state to practice social work, psychology, or marriage and family therapy, information
36     concerning the commission of an offense, knowing that the offense did not occur or knowing
37     that [he] the actor has no information relating to the offense or danger; [or]
38          (3) the actor knowingly gives or causes to be given false information to [any] a state or
39     local government agency or personnel with a purpose of inducing a change in the [person's]
40     actor's licensing or certification status or the licensing or certification status of another
41     individual; or
42          (4) (a) at the time of the actor's arrest for an offense, the actor states to a law
43     enforcement officer that the actor ingested drugs before the actor's arrest;
44          (b) the law enforcement officer, based on the actor's statement described in Subsection
45     (4)(a), takes the actor to a health care facility for medical treatment; and
46          (c) a medical examination of the actor demonstrates that the actor's statement described
47     in Subsection (4)(a) was false.