AZ SB1158

Allows judges to mitigate civil penalties, fines, and surcharges if payment would create hardship on the defendant or their immediate family, with proportional division of the total amount due.

Permits superior courts, justice courts, and municipal courts to remove debts from their accounting systems after 20 years if reasonable collection efforts are made, including submission to a licensed collection agency for at least one year.

Adds community restitution and education/treatment as sentencing options for misdemeanor convictions, with community restitution credited at $10 per hour toward monetary obligations.

Expands the definition of monetary obligations subject to community restitution to include fines, civil penalties, surcharges, fees, assessments, and incarceration costs.

Allows earned time credits for probationers who remain current on restitution payments and comply with all other nonmonetary obligations, reducing supervised probation by 20 days for every 30 days of compliance.