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Utah law currently requires certain juveniles convicted of serious sex, kidnapping, or child abuse offenses to register on the state's Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry, but an earlier change specified that juveniles convicted after May 3, 2023 only have to register if their case was filed in juvenile court through a criminal information, transferred to adult district court, and resulted in a conviction there — with an exception carving out certain juvenile offenders who met specific criteria under a separate section of law, meaning those particular offenders still had to register even without going through that transfer process. This bill removes that exception, so the registration exemption would apply uniformly: any individual convicted after May 3, 2023 of an offense committed while under 18 would not be required to register unless their case went through the full juvenile-to-adult-court transfer process and ended in a conviction for a registrable offense in district court. In effect, this expands who qualifies for the exemption from mandatory registration by eliminating the carve-out that had kept some juvenile offenders subject to registration under the old rules. The bill would take effect May 6, 2026.