---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexual Crimes Amendments"
description: "Sexual Crimes Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Utah SB 144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abuse", "Neglect", "or Dependency", "Child Welfare", "Crimes", "Health and Human Services", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Pornography", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kwan, Karen"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 46
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-20T18:28:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:38:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b6dbdf3-742e-44fd-a5d0-830cd67ab51d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0144.html"
source_hash: "d5cfdaa7a16800ad5c72bb8a12cf3e11ee6717006010a2dbaa8bb3c2fbd57de1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah SB 144 (2025) — Sexual Crimes Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0144.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0144 To SB0144S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0144S01 To SB0144S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0144S02 To SB0144S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB144H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB144H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB144H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB144S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB144S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB144S20.pdf)
11. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0144S01.xml)
12. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0144S02.xml)
13. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0144S03.xml)
14. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0144.xml)

## Sponsors

- Kwan, Karen — primary (person)
- Loubet, Anthony E. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-20T18:28:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-20T18:28:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-20T21:01:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-24T17:08:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-24T18:30:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31T21:00:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2025-02-21T15:08:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-21T15:23:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-21T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-25T18:26:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:31:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T17:41:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26T17:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T17:43:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-26T19:38:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T21:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T16:21:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T01:53:00+00:00** House/ 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2025-03-06T01:22:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T16:52:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T16:53:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-07T21:52:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T21:58:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-07T22:00:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:00:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T23:34:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T23:34:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T01:05:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T01:05:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:40:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T05:40:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T20:35:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T20:35:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-14T14:24:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-14T14:24:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:38:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b6dbdf3-742e-44fd-a5d0-830cd67ab51d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).