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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 law and creates a new, standalone felony called "aiding or encouraging suicide," covering both directly helping someone die by suicide and repeatedly encouraging a person to do so — on four or more occasions — when that encouragement recklessly leads them to attempt or die by suicide; this offense carries a mandatory fine of at least $10,000. 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 new penalty tiers, with sexual extortion carrying a mandatory $5,000 fine and aggravated sexual extortion carrying a mandatory fine of $10,000 to $20,000 depending on the circumstances of the offense. Both extortion offenses would also become eligible to be classified as domestic violence crimes. The bill additionally makes conforming updates to related laws covering sex offender registration, cold case investigations, statute of limitations rules, sentencing factors, and school-based child sexual abuse prevention training so that they account for these newly separated and renamed offenses.