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Utah law generally protects people from being prosecuted twice for offenses arising from the same conduct, a protection often called double jeopardy. This bill would create an exception allowing prosecutors to bring a new homicide charge against someone who was previously prosecuted for causing serious bodily injury to a victim, if that victim later dies from those injuries and the injury was the proximate cause of death, provided the death occurs within 10 years of the earlier case ending in a conviction or a dismissal without prejudice; for cases originally charged as attempted aggravated murder, attempted murder, first-degree aggravated child abuse, or child torture, this 10-year limit would not apply. In these subsequent homicide prosecutions, prosecutors would be limited to charging only a homicide offense, not other crimes. When a defendant is convicted under this new exception, the bill would allow a judge to reduce the minimum prison time required before parole eligibility—based on time already served for the earlier conviction—though probation or suspended sentences would not be allowed, and it would also let the Board of Pardons and Parole credit time served from the earlier conviction toward the new sentence.