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Utah's child abuse homicide law currently applies when an abuser directly causes a child's death, but this bill would expand that law to also cover cases where a child dies by suicide, as long as the suicide was a direct or proximate result of abuse or torture the child suffered. The bill also corrects an error in how the law's penalty section cross-references different types of abuse, ensuring that child torture cases are properly classified as first-degree felonies while other qualifying offenses remain second-degree felonies. Additionally, the bill includes a coordination clause specifying how the law should read if a related bill, S.B. 32, also passes this session, since both bills would make changes to the same section of law.