Bill Text: AZ SB1076 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Abducting child from state agency

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-04-16 - Chapter 92 [SB1076 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2019-SB1076-Chaptered.html

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House Engrossed Senate Bill

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

 

CHAPTER 92

 

SENATE BILL 1076

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 13, chapter 13, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13‑1310; relating to custody of children.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Title 13, chapter 13, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-1310, to read:

START_STATUTE13-1310.  Abduction of child from a state agency; classification; definition

A.  A person commits abduction of a child from a state agency if, knowing or having reason to know that a child is entrusted by authority of law to the custody of a state agency, the person does either of the following:

1.  Takes, entices or keeps the child from the lawful custody of the state agency.

2.  Intentionally fails or refuses to immediately return or impedes the immediate return of a child to the lawful custody of the state agency, including at the expiration of visitation or access.

B.  A violation of subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section is a class 5 felony.  A violation of subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is:

1.  A class 3 felony if the child is taken, enticed or kept from the lawful custody of the state agency and is taken outside of this state.

2.  A class 4 felony if the child is taken, enticed or kept from the lawful custody of the state agency but the child remains in this state at all times.

3.  A class 6 felony if the person voluntarily returns the child without physical injury not later than forty‑eight hours after the person takes, entices or keeps the child from the lawful custody of the state agency.

C.  For the purposes of this section, "state agency" means the department of child safety or the department of juvenile corrections. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 16, 2019.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 16, 2019.