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AZ SB1076

Bill

Status

Passed

4/16/2019

Primary Sponsor

Kate Brophy McGee

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature - First Regular Session (2019)

AI Summary

  • Adds Section 13-1310 to Arizona Revised Statutes to criminalize abduction of a child from a state agency's lawful custody.

  • Makes it illegal to take, entice, or keep a child from state agency custody, or to intentionally fail to return a child at the end of visitation or access.

  • Establishes graduated penalties: Class 3 felony if child is taken out of state; Class 4 felony if taken but remains in state; Class 6 felony if child is voluntarily returned within 48 hours without physical injury.

  • Classifies intentional failure or refusal to return a child to state agency custody as a Class 5 felony.

  • Defines "state agency" as the Department of Child Safety or Department of Juvenile Corrections.

Legislative Description

Abducting child from state agency

Child Custody

Last Action

Chapter 92

4/16/2019

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