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Spanning more than 35 sections of Utah law, this bill rewrites how "sexual offense" is defined across a wide range of statutes — including those covering background checks, domestic violence, crime victim protections, employment, insurance, sentencing, and juvenile justice. The core change is removing previous exclusions that had carved out several specific offenses — enticing a minor (Section 76-5-417), sexual battery (76-5-418), and in some contexts lewdness (76-5-419) and lewdness involving a child (76-5-420) — from the umbrella term "sexual offense." After this bill, those offenses are treated the same as other sexual offenses for purposes of eligibility rules, penalties, legal protections, and definitions throughout the code, though a handful of context-specific exclusions for lewdness offenses remain in certain sections.