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2026 floor votes

H.B. 138: Child Abuse Homicide Amendments

1 recorded floor vote in the 2026 General Session. The bill's official page has its text, sponsors, committee votes and full history.

About this bill

Did not pass both chambers; the bill was filed on March 6, 2026. This bill addresses the offense of child abuse homicide.

  • Clarifies that an actor can be charged under the criminal offense of child abuse homicide if the child dies by suicide after being subjected to child abuse or child torture and the suicide is a direct or proximate result of the abuse or torture
  • Corrects an error in the child abuse homicide offense's penalty subsection
  • Adds a coordination clause to merge the changes to Section 76-5-208 if both this bill and S.B. 32, Child Abuse Homicide Corrections, pass and become law
  • Makes technical and conforming changes

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Lisa Shepherd

Utah House, February 23, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 138
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 70 Nays 0 N/V 5
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (66)

53 Republican, 13 Democratic

Absent or not voting (5)

1 Democratic, 4 Republican

Votes are listed as the Utah Legislature's floor vote records show them. Names are matched to today's roster, so members who have since left the Legislature aren't in the lists; the totals are the record's own. Committee votes and voice votes aren't included.