SB 176 Utah Senate · 2025 General Session

Dog Injuries Amendments

SB 176 increases the maximum payout for victims of dog attacks from $50,000 to $75,000 in both arbitration and court cases, covering bodily injury claims (excluding certain costs). It also allows families to file wrongful death claims in dog attack cases. The bill makes technical updates to Utah's existing law on arbitration for dog injury cases (Section 18-1-4) but does not appropriate new funds. This directly affects victims seeking compensation and the insurance companies or owners liable for dog attacks.

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Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 28, 2025 Last action Mar 8, 2025

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Substitute #1 → Substitute #2 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill substitutes a revised version of SB 176 that increases the maximum arbitration award from $50,000 to $75,000 for dog attack injury claims, clarifies that wrongful death claims are permitted in dog attack cases, and makes technical formatting and conforming changes to the text.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on dog attack injury cases, but the financial threshold for arbitration awards has been increased, and the wrongful death provision has been clarified to explicitly allow such claims in this context.

REQUIREMENT

Increased the maximum arbitration award limit from $50,000 to $75,000 for bodily injury claims in dog attack cases.

ELIGIBILITY

Clarified that claimants may maintain wrongful death claims in dog attack cases, which was previously ambiguous in the text.

TECHNICAL

Made formatting and text corrections throughout the bill, including updating section numbering and removing redundant language.

Added header information identifying this as the second substitute version with sponsor information and timestamp.

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Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation

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Jan 30, 2025

Committee

Senate/ to standing committee

upper

Jan 28, 2025

Introduced

Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)

upper

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor