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Several Utah criminal statutes currently contain outdated cross-references, subsection numbering errors, and at least one penalty provision that was accidentally dropped during last year's overhaul of the criminal code, and this bill would correct those problems. It would fix an incorrect legal reference in the law that shields gun manufacturers and sellers from certain lawsuits, correct numbering mistakes in the sexual battery statute without changing what conduct is illegal, and restore a missing penalty provision for the crime of distributing material harmful to minors — while also clarifying that someone who would otherwise qualify for a "close-in-age" exception to that crime (where the offender is not much older than a minor who is at least 16) would still face a felony instead of a misdemeanor if they have a prior conviction for the same offense. The bill would also rename the crime of "public assistance fraud by a recipient of public assistance" to "public assistance fraud related to obtaining or using public assistance" and fix a related citation, and it would update outdated terminology and cross-references throughout the list of crimes covered by Utah's organized crime ("pattern of unlawful activity") law, such as replacing "pistol or revolver" with "handgun" and adding a reference to the offense of installing hidden compartments in vehicles for hiding contraband.