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Arizona’s 54th Legislature’s Second Regular
Session begins today, January 13, 2020; legislators have already filed 284
bills.
A summary of just a few of
the bills that have been filed are as follows.
To see a complete list of bills that have been filed, go to the Arizona
State Legislature website at the following link:
HB 2074: DEATH CERTIFICATES; GENDER
The person completing a death certificate is required to record the decedent’s sex to reflect the decedent’s gender identity. On being presented with a document memorializing a gender transition, a local registrar or the state registrar are required to amend the sex listed on a registered death certificate to reflect the decedent's gender identity.
- ARS Title Affected: 36
- First Sponsor: Rep. Gabaldon (D - Dist 2)
HB 2055: CIVIL TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS; COMMUNITY RESTITUTION
A person who violates
traffic and vehicle regulation statutes may perform court-approved community
restitution in lieu of paying a civil penalty, surcharge, assessment or fee.
The court is prohibited from assessing the time payment fee (set elsewhere in
statute and currently $20) on civil traffic violations.
- ARS Title Affected: 28
- First Sponsor: Rep. Biasiucci (R - Dist 5)
HB 2062: ANIMAL FIGHTING PARAPHERNALIA; OFFENCE
It is a class 1
(highest) misdemeanor for a person to knowingly own, possess, purchase, sell,
transfer or manufacture "animal fighting paraphernalia" (defined) for
the purpose of engaging in, promoting or facilitating animal fighting or
cockfighting.
- ARS Title Affected: 13
- First Sponsor: Rep. Kavanagh (R - Dist 23)
HB 2049: MEDICAL CONDITIONS; MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The list of
debilitating medical conditions that qualifies a person to receive a medical
marijuana registry identification card is expanded to include opioid use
disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Due to voter protection, this
legislation requires the affirmative vote of at least 3/4 of the members of
each house of the Legislature for passage.
- ARS Title Affected: 36
- First Sponsor: Rep. Espinoza (D - Dist 19)
SB 1071: IMMIGRATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; REPEAL
Repeals the following
statutes established by Laws 2010, Chapter 113 (S1070): the prohibition on
state and local government agencies or governing bodies restricting the
enforcement of federal immigration law; the requirement for law enforcement
officials to determine the immigration status of a person at any lawful stop or
arrest where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is unlawfully present
in the U.S.; provisions allowing law enforcement to arrest without warrant any
person the officer has probable cause to believe has committed a public offense
that makes the person removable from the U.S.; the defense of entrapment for
employers found to be employing unauthorized aliens; the establishment of
willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document, unlawful stopping
to hire and pick up passengers for work, and unlawful application for
employment or employment by an unauthorized alien as class 1 misdemeanors; the
requirement that a vehicle driven in furtherance of the illegal presence of an
alien in the U.S. and in violation of a criminal offense be immobilized or
impounded; and the establishment of the Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team
Enforcement Mission (GIITEM) Fund.
- ARS Titles Affected: 12, 13, 23, 28, 41
- First Sponsor: Sen. Quezada (D - Dist 29)
HB 2035: APPROPRIATION; VETERANS; SERVICES; BENEFITS COUNSELORS
Makes a supplemental
appropriation of $1.2 million from the general fund in FY2020-21 to the
Department of Veterans' Services to hire additional benefits counselors.
- ARS Titles Affected: 41
- First Sponsor: Rep. Andrade (D - Dist 29)
