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Utah S.B. 82 Autopsy Photo Amendments Bill Page

Graphic showing the Utah State Legislature bill page for S.B. 82 Autopsy Photo Amendments with sponsor portraits and a red arrow

What This Image Shows​

A composite social graphic. The black header reads NEW 2025 UTAH LAW CRIMINALIZES THE SHARING OF AUTOPSY PHOTOS. Below it, two screenshots of the Utah State Legislature website show the bill page for S.B. 82 Autopsy Photo Amendments, with tabs for Bill Text, Status and Hearings/Debate, portraits of the bill sponsors labeled Sen. Pitcher, Stephanie and Rep. Peck, Nicholeen P., and the lines Drafting Attorney: Greg Gunn and Fiscal Analyst: Russell T. Frandsen, with the drafting attorney name underlined in red. The information panel reads Last Action: 3/26/2025, Governor Signed and Last Location: Lieutenant Governor office for filing. The right column lists document links including Amended 2/18/2025, Substitute #1, Enrolled, Fiscal Note, Senate Amendment 1 passed on floor, and House and Senate Transmittal Letters. A handle in the frame reads SamParkerSenate.

The legislative facts are checkable and are recorded in the investigation notes: S.B. 82 was introduced on January 9, 2025, signed on March 26, 2025, and took effect on May 7, 2025. It makes the knowing sharing, publication, or distribution of medical examiner autopsy photographs a class B misdemeanor unless the image is already in the public domain, and it restricts release of medical examiner records to immediate relatives, legal representatives, physicians, law enforcement, and qualified researchers.

Why researchers file it here is the timing: a Utah law restricting autopsy imagery took effect roughly four months before September 10, 2025. That sequence is what the posters highlight. It is a chronology, not evidence of intent, and no claim is made here about any legislator, attorney, or official involved in the bill. See Utah Autopsy Law Changes, Autopsy Report Not Public, and Autopsy Sealed and the Examiner.

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