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Utah law already makes possessing or distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) a crime, and this bill would create a new civil legal pathway allowing people to sue over obscenity, CSAM, or child sex dolls. Specifically, a person could sue someone who publishes or distributes obscene material or CSAM depicting them, makes such material accessible to them, or possesses, purchases, or distributes a child sex doll made in their likeness, as long as either the person suing lives in Utah or the conduct happened in Utah — and this right to sue would exist even if no criminal charges were ever filed. Courts could award those who sue a range of remedies, including orders to stop the conduct, nominal or actual damages, punitive damages, and attorney fees, and multiple people with similar claims could join their cases together. Internet service providers, search engines, cloud service providers, and their affiliates would be protected from liability under this new law as long as they did not create the obscene or CSAM content themselves, and the bill also broadens existing legal protections for attorneys, their agents, and organizations that handle CSAM in good faith while performing their official duties, such as reporting or preventing its spread.