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Utah's law against emergency reporting abuse currently covers false 911 calls and similar misuse of emergency lines, but does not directly address repeated non-emergency calls. This bill would expand that offense to include contacting a 911 emergency response service when the caller knows, or reasonably should know, that no real or perceived emergency, crime, or public safety threat actually exists, but only if the caller has previously been told by a 911 dispatcher, law enforcement officer, or prosecutor that the same or a similar situation is not appropriate to report to 911. This new violation would be a class B misdemeanor, and as with other violations under this law, a court would be required to order the convicted person to reimburse the costs of any emergency response the call triggered. The bill also relocates the definition of "party line" from one statute to the other statute where it is actually used, without changing its meaning.