Bill Text: AZ HB2079 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Technical correction; escape; secure facility

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - Introduced in House and read first time [HB2079 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2079-Introduced.html

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PREFILED    JAN 08 2016

REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; escape; secure facility

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HB 2079

 

Introduced by

Representative Townsend

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13‑2504, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to escape.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-2504, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

END_STATUTE13-2504.  Escape in the first degree; classification

A.  A person commits escape in the first degree by knowingly escaping or attempting to escape from custody or a juvenile secure care facility, a juvenile detention facility or an adult correctional facility by:

1.  Using or threatening the use of physical force against another person; or

2.  Using or threatening to use a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument against another person.

B.  Escape in the first degree is a class 4 felony, and the sentence imposed for a violation of this section shall run consecutively to any sentence of imprisonment for which the person was confined, to any confinement in a secure care facility or to any term of community supervision for the sentence including probation, parole, work furlough or any other release. START_STATUTE