AZ HB2469

Declares Arizona's sovereign authority to protect the state from drug cartels threatening public safety and health, citing the federal government's failure to secure the Arizona-Mexico border.

Defines "drug cartel" as ongoing associations engaged in unlawful human smuggling, trafficking of fentanyl or other lethal drugs for profit, or acts of terrorism.

Defines "unlawful invasion" as illicit activities of a drug cartel and establishes that state laws shall be interpreted to protect sovereign authority against such invasion.

Declares fentanyl trafficking across Arizona's border a public health crisis and directs the Department of Health to use all available authority to address the crisis.

Notes that overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids are primarily driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl.