Bill Text: AZ HR2003 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Enrolled
Bill Title: Don Shooter; expulsion
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-02-01 - House third reading PASSED voting: (56-3-1-0) [HR2003 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2018-HR2003-Enrolled.html
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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HOUSE RESOLUTION 2003 |
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A RESOLUTION
expelling don shooter from the house of representatives.
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Whereas, on November 7, 2017, allegations of sexual harassment were alleged against Representative Don Shooter; and
Whereas, subsequent to that charge, Representative Shooter asked the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Javan D. Mesnard, to commence an investigation; and
Whereas, Speaker Mesnard appointed a bipartisan team to investigate and evaluate all of the allegations, and that team hired special counsel; and
Whereas, over the course of the next eleven weeks, special counsel conducted interviews with over forty witnesses and victims; and
Whereas, the culmination of the investigation was presented to the House of Representatives on January 30, 2018; and
Whereas, special counsel found there is credible evidence that Representative Shooter has violated the Arizona House of Representatives policy on workplace harassment and has created a hostile working environment for his colleagues and those with business before the legislature; and
Whereas, that pattern of conduct has occurred from the time he was first elected to the Arizona Senate to as recently as 2017.
Therefore
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona:
1. That the House of Representatives finds that Representative Don Shooter's pattern of conduct was dishonorable and unbecoming of a member of the House of Representatives.
2. That Representative Don Shooter's conduct undermined the public's confidence in this institution and violated the order and decorum necessary to complete the peoples' work in the State of Arizona.
3. That in the exercise of the power granted to it by Article IV, part 2, section 11, Constitution of Arizona, the House of Representatives condemns workplace harassment and, with concurrence of two-thirds of its members, hereby expels Representative Don Shooter.
4. That the seat of the member of the House of Representatives, legislative district 13, occupied by Don Shooter is now vacant.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE FEBRUARY 1, 2018.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FEBRUARY 1, 2018.
