This bill addresses criminal offenses related to coercive conduct. This bill: - creates the criminal offense of aiding or encouraging suicide that:contains current language regarding aiding suicide moved from the criminal offense of manslaughter; andadds new elements of encouraging suicide in certain circumstances that can be charged criminally; - separates the criminal offenses of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion into two separate offenses; - adds additional elements to the criminal offense of sexual extortion; - adds the criminal offenses of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion to the list of offenses that are eligible to be considered a domestic violence offense; and - makes technical and conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-2-120, 53-10-115, 53-29-202, 53-29-203, 53-29-205, 53G-9-207, 76-1-301, 76-3-406.5, 76-5-205, 76-17-401, 77-22-2.5, 77-36-1, 80-6-712, 80-6-804