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Utah's child abuse homicide law currently lists child torture as one of the underlying offenses that can support a charge of child abuse homicide when a child's death results from abuse. If passed, this bill would remove child torture from that list, since causing a child's death through torture is already covered under Utah's murder statute, and having it in both places creates unnecessary overlap. The bill also renumbers related provisions to reflect this change and takes effect immediately upon passage rather than on the standard date.