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2026 floor votes

H.B. 221: Coercion Amendments

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

About this bill

Signed by the governor on March 24, 2026. This bill addresses criminal offenses related to coercive conduct.

  • Creates the criminal offense of aiding or encouraging suicide that: contains current language regarding aiding suicide moved from the criminal offense of manslaughter; and adds new elements of encouraging suicide in certain circumstances that can be charged criminally
  • Separates the criminal offenses of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion into two separate offenses
  • Adds additional elements to the criminal offense of sexual extortion
  • Adds the criminal offenses of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion to the list of offenses that are eligible to be considered a domestic violence offense
  • Requires a mandatory fine for certain convictions of: aiding or encouraging suicide; sexual extortion; and aggravated sexual extortion
  • Makes technical and conforming changes

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Ryan D. Wilcox

Utah House, February 19, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 221
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 62 Nays 0 N/V 13
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (59)

45 Republican, 14 Democratic

Absent or not voting (12)

12 Republican

Utah Senate, March 3, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on Second · 2nd Sub. HB 221
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 26 Nays 0 Abs 3
Official record

Yes (26)

19 Republican, 1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Absent or not voting (3)

3 Republican

Utah Senate, March 4, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 221
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 27 Nays 0 Abs 2
Official record

Yes (27)

21 Republican, 1 Forward, 5 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

1 Republican, 1 Democratic

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.