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AZ HB2711

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/31/2012

Primary Sponsor

Tom Chabin

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2012)

AI Summary

  • Amends section 13-3553 to reclassify sexual exploitation of a minor offenses, distinguishing between production (class 2 felony, or dangerous crime against children if victim under 15) and possession/distribution offenses.

  • Creates a new "personal use" exception for possession offenses committed solely for personal viewing, reducing the classification from class 2 felony to class 6 felony, unless the offender has prior sex offense registration requirements.

  • Defines "personal use" as transporting, receiving, purchasing, electronically transmitting, possessing or duplicating visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct exclusively for the person's own viewing.

  • Establishes a one-time disproportionality review process for inmates sentenced under the prior version of section 13-3553, allowing the board of executive clemency to recommend sentence commutation if the sentence is clearly excessive under the new law.

  • Requires the board of executive clemency to complete all disproportionality reviews by December 31, 2013, with the review provision repealing on June 30, 2014.

Legislative Description

Sexual exploitation; children; classification

Last Action

Referred to House JUD Committee

2/1/2012

Full Bill Text

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