Bill Amendment: AZ HB2548 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Public forums; activities; postsecondary campuses
Status: 2016-05-16 - Chapter 249 [HB2548 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2016-HB2548-SENATE_ADOPTED_AMENDMENT_Kavanagh_flr_amend_ref_Bill_adopted.html
Bill
Number: H.B. 2548
Kavanagh Floor Amendment
Reference to: House engrossed bill
Amendment drafted by: Catcher Baden
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
Expands the offense of obstructing a highway or public thoroughfare to include a person that, after receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event.
Classifies this offense as a class 1 misdemeanor.
Makes clarifying changes.
Fifty-second Legislature Kavanagh
Second Regular Session H.B. 2548
KAVANAGH FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2548
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
13-2906. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare; classification; definition
A. A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with other persons, does either any of the following:
1. Having no legal privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
2. Intentionally activates a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare but to do both of the following:
(a) Stop the passage of traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare.
(b) Solicit a driver for a donation or business.
3. After receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event.
B. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare under subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare under subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor.
C. For the purposes of this section, "public forum" has the same meaning prescribed in section 15‑1861."
Renumber to conform
Page 1, line 30, strike �compensatory damages,�
Line 32, strike "PERSON" insert "student"
Amend title to conform
