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Utah law currently treats aiding someone's suicide as a form of manslaughter and handles sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion under a single statute. This bill moves "aiding suicide" out of the manslaughter statute and creates a new, standalone felony called "aiding or encouraging suicide," which covers both directly helping someone die by suicide and repeatedly encouraging a person to die by suicide — on four or more occasions — when that encouragement recklessly leads them to attempt or die by suicide. Separately, the bill splits sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion into two distinct crimes, expands the definition of sexual extortion to include refusing to delete or remove intimate images after a victim requests it, and adds both offenses to the list of domestic violence crimes. All three new or revised offenses carry mandatory fines that courts cannot waive: at least $10,000 for aiding or encouraging suicide, at least $5,000 for sexual extortion, and between $10,000 and $20,000 for aggravated sexual extortion depending on the circumstances.