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Utah law currently has no explicit prohibition on requiring sexual offense victims to take a lie detector test, but this bill changes that by barring law enforcement officers, prosecutors, courts, and other government officials from asking or requiring a sexual offense victim to submit to a polygraph examination during a criminal investigation or prosecution, and from making a polygraph a condition of moving a case forward. It also explicitly states that a victim's refusal to take a polygraph cannot be used to halt an investigation, filing of charges, or prosecution. Sexual assault survivors are the most directly affected — they can no longer be pressured into taking a lie detector test or have their case dropped because they declined one.