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Utah law currently does not explicitly prohibit asking a sexual assault victim to take a lie detector test, but this bill would change that. It would bar law enforcement officers, prosecuting attorneys, courts, and other government officials from asking or requiring a victim of a sexual offense to submit to a polygraph examination during a criminal investigation or prosecution, and from using a polygraph as a condition of moving the case forward. It also specifies that a victim's refusal to take a polygraph cannot be used as grounds to stop an investigation, decline to file charges, or halt prosecution of a sexual offense. The bill also adds a definition of "law enforcement officer" and makes other minor wording updates to related legal definitions.