Senate Bill 1013 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes sections 15-1864 and 15-1865 to protect student free speech rights at universities and community colleges in public forums, subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions that are content-neutral and narrowly tailored.

• Establishes that public areas of college campuses are public forums open to any speaker and allows students, student groups, and faculty to invite outside speakers; prohibits charging security fees based on speech content.

• Prohibits colleges from requiring students or faculty to publicly express or endorse particular views on public policy controversies and limits institutional positions on controversial issues unless essential to campus operations.

• Allows students, faculty, staff, and the attorney general to sue for violations and recover injunctive relief, court costs, reasonable attorney fees, and damages of $1,000 or actual damages (whichever is greater); establishes a one-year statute of limitations with each day of violation counted as a new cause of action.

• Imposes state aid withholding penalties on community college districts that exceed expenditure limitations, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on the percentage of excess, retroactive to June 30, 2022.