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This wide-ranging public safety bill makes numerous changes to Utah's domestic violence and criminal procedure laws. It significantly expands and reorganizes the list of crimes that count as a "domestic violence offense" — adding human trafficking, vulnerable adult abuse, tampering with witnesses, and other offenses — while also updating the definition of "cohabitant" used across domestic violence, protective order, and battered person defense statutes, including new rules for sibling, stepsibling, and foster-sibling relationships. The bill allows courts to deny bail to someone charged with a domestic violence offense if there is clear and convincing evidence they would pose a substantial danger to the victim or community, with a presumption of danger if the offense is a felony or class A misdemeanor committed while already on parole, probation, or pretrial release for a prior domestic violence charge; it also clarifies how officers identify the "predominant aggressor" in disputes with complaints from both parties, requires that people arrested for a domestic violence offense be brought before a magistrate without unnecessary delay, and requires law enforcement to submit charges to prosecutors within five business days. Additionally, the bill prohibits a jail release agreement from barring a parent arrested for committing domestic violence in a child's presence from communicating with that child in certain circumstances, while separately preventing a parent from waiving jail release conditions on a co-parent's behalf when their shared child is the alleged victim. It also makes technical adjustments to venue rules for criminal trials and to workplace violence protective order requirements, and includes clauses coordinating its definitions with two other bills (Coercion Amendments and Sexual Offenses Amendments) if those also become law.