Bill Text: AZ HB2351 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Communication with legislator

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-20 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2351 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2010-HB2351-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: communication with legislator

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

HB 2351

 

Introduced by

Representatives Antenori, Gowan, Montenegro: Burges, Court, Goodale, Heinz, Hendrix, Jones, Kavanagh, Seel, Stevens

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41‑1235, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the legislature.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Section 41-1235, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1235.  Spurious communications; classification; impersonating a constituent of a legislator; classification

A.  Whoever shall transmit, utter or publish to the legislature, or to any member or members of the legislature, or any committee, officer or employee of either house of the legislature, or to any state officer, agency, board, commission or council any communication materially related to any matter within the jurisdiction of the legislature, or be a party to the preparation thereof, knowing such communication or signature thereto is false, forged, counterfeit or fictitious shall be is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

B.  A person commits impersonating a constituent of a legislator if the person pretends to be a constituent of a legislator and uses the mail, a telephone, electronic mail or any other means to communicate with the legislator or the legislator's assistant with the intent to induce the legislator or the legislator's assistant to rely on the person's pretended act.  Impersonating a constituent of a legislator is a class 2 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE