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Utah's terrorism law would be renamed from "threat of terrorism" to simply "terrorism," clarifying that it applies to actually carrying out an attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, a hoax weapon, or acts intended to intimidate the public or a government, rather than only to making a threat. The bill would create a new third-degree felony for coordinating with a federally designated foreign terrorist organization to commit a crime, or for unlawfully acting as an agent of a foreign government, and a new class A misdemeanor for wearing a mask or disguise to hide one's identity from law enforcement while committing a crime in public, or while knowingly gathering with others who are committing one. It would also create a new third-degree felony for acting with two or more people to block someone from entering or leaving a house of worship in order to prevent them from practicing their religion, and would allow a person harmed by that crime to sue for at least $2,000 in damages plus attorney's fees, even if the person accused is found not guilty in a related criminal case. Finally, the bill would add this new foreign-organization offense, along with the existing offense of aggravated disorderly conduct on a street or highway, to the list of crimes that can support charges under Utah's law targeting patterns of repeated, related criminal activity, often used against organized or coordinated criminal conduct.