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In other news, an affirmative consent bill, which aims to address Utah's low sexual assault prosecution rate, has been proposed for the fourth time. And, a plane was recovered from Pineview Reservoir after crashing over the weekend.
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Utah legislator Angela Romero, who represents the 26th district in the Utah House of Representatives, has worked with Julie Valentine, a nursing professor at Brigham Young University, to introduce House Bill 98, a bill that would make sexual conduct without affirmative consent a third-degree felony.
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Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring HB98 which would create a third-degree felony offense of sexual conduct without affirmative consent. Current Utah law defines sexual abuse as when “the victim expresses lack of consent through words or conduct.”