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Addressing what the bill calls "transnational repression" — when foreign governments or designated foreign terrorist organizations reach into Utah to harass, intimidate, surveil, or coerce people here, including through threats against family members abroad, financial pressure, or misuse of immigration processes — this bill creates a formal legal definition for that conduct and responds to it in two ways. It requires Utah's public colleges and universities, through the Utah Board of Higher Education, to give international students information about transnational repression and how to report it to law enforcement. It also creates a new criminal penalty enhancement: if someone commits a crime while acting as an agent of, or under the direction of, a foreign government or foreign terrorist organization, with the intent to force a victim to act on that government's or organization's behalf, leave the country, or otherwise do or refrain from doing something against their will, the crime can be charged one level more severely — for example, a misdemeanor could be elevated to a felony, or a lower-degree felony bumped up to a higher one.