Bill Text: AZ HB2689 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Technical correction; public charges; return

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - Introduced in House and read first time [HB2689 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2689-Introduced.html

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CORRECTED   Feb 08 2016

REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; public charges; return

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HB 2689

 

Introduced by

Representative Livingston

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41‑906, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the governor's authority.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Section 41-906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-906.  Return of alien and nonresident public charges

A.  The governor shall cooperate with the United States commissioner general of immigration assistant secretary of the United States immigration and customs enforcement and the director of the United States citizenship and immigration services and with boards or officials of foreign countries for the purpose of arranging and providing for the return to the foreign countries of alien public charges confined in the state hospital or in the industrial school, and of aliens discharged from the state prison.

B.  To facilitate the return of nonresident public charges confined in the state hospital, or in the state industrial school, the governor may enter into reciprocal agreements or arrangements with officers of other states for the mutual exchange of such public charges, and in pursuance thereof the governor may give written consent and approval of the return to the state of any resident of this state confined in a public institution of another state, corresponding to hospitals or asylums for the insane, or of a state institution for the reformation of delinquent minors.

C.  A person shall not be deemed a resident of this state for the purposes of this section unless he has resided continuously in the state for one year next preceding commitment to any of the institutions named in this section.

D.  The expenses incurred in returning aliens and nonresident public charges shall be paid by the state, but the expense of returning residents of this state to this state shall not be paid by this state. END_STATUTE