Bill Text: AZ HB2656 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Child abuse; false reporting; felony

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-12 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2656 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-HB2656-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: child abuse; false reporting; felony

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

HB 2656

 

Introduced by

Representatives Townsend, Benally: Finchem, Thorpe

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13‑2907.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Section 13-2907.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2907.02.  False reporting of child abuse or neglect; classification

A person who knowingly and intentionally makes a false report of child abuse or neglect knowing the report is false or a person who coerces another person to make a false report of child abuse or neglect knowing the report is false is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor 6 felony. END_STATUTE