Bill Text: AZ HB2165 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered


Bill Title: Peace officer memorial board; members

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-24 - Chapter 64 [HB2165 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2165-Chaptered.html

 

 

 

House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

 

CHAPTER 64

 

HOUSE BILL 2165

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41‑1829, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the arizona peace officers memorial board.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


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

Section 1.  Section 41-1829, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1829.  Arizona peace officers memorial board; board termination

A.  An Arizona peace officers memorial board is established consisting of the following members:

1.  The attorney general or the attorney general's designee, who shall serve as permanent chairman.

2.  The director of the department of public safety or the director's designee.

3.  The director of the state department of corrections or the director's designee.

4.  The executive director of the Arizona criminal justice commission or the executive director's designee.

5.  Eleven members appointed pursuant to subsection B of this section. and

6.  As advisory members, the chairmen of the appropriations and judiciary committees of the house of representatives and the senate.  For the purposes of this subsection paragraph, "advisory member" means a member who gives advice to the other members of the peace officers memorial board at meetings of the board but who is not eligible to vote and is not a member for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present.

B.  The permanent chairman shall appoint one private citizen who is knowledgeable in the history of law enforcement in this state, one county sheriff or the county sheriff's designee, one local police chief or the police chief's designee, two members selected from a recognized fraternal organization for law enforcement personnel, two representatives from the business community, two family members of peace officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty and two members from a statewide organization representing law enforcement personnel.

C.  The board shall meet at the call of the permanent chairman.

D.  Members of the board are not eligible to receive compensation, but members appointed pursuant to subsection B of this section are entitled to reimbursement from the Arizona peace officers memorial fund for reasonable expenses in traveling on and attending to official board business.

E.  The board established by this section ends on July 1, 2019 pursuant to section 41‑3103. END_STATUTE


 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MARCH 24, 2016.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 24, 2016.

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