HB2290 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 13-4413 regarding victim notification about prisoners in state custody.

• Reduces the timeframe for notifying victims of a prisoner's earliest release date from thirty days to twenty-five days after the victim's request for postconviction notice.

• Requires the state department of corrections director to provide victims with notice of the earliest release date if the prisoner's sentence exceeds six months.

• Maintains existing requirements for sheriffs to notify victims at least fifteen days before prisoner release and within fifteen days after prisoner death.

• Makes technical corrections to terminology, changing "post-conviction" to "postconviction" and "his" to "the prisoner's."