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This bill standardizes how "sexual offense" is defined across dozens of areas of Utah law, including background checks for people working with children or vulnerable adults, domestic violence and child abuse definitions, insurance protections for assault victims, employment screening rules, nonprofit oversight, and workplace nondisclosure agreements. Under current law, several specific crimes — including enticing a minor, sexual battery, and lewdness offenses — were sometimes carved out and excluded from counting as "sexual offenses" in certain statutes, even though they are sex crimes. If passed, this bill would remove most of those carve-outs so that these offenses are consistently treated as sexual offenses throughout the code, meaning they would count the same as other sex crimes for purposes such as background check disqualifications, domestic violence classifications, insurance coverage for assault survivors, and employment eligibility rules. The bill also makes minor technical and formatting updates to the affected code sections but does not create new crimes or penalties.