Bill Text: AZ SB1287 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sexually explicit materials; government; prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-07 - Senate GOV Committee action: Do Pass Amended, voting: (5-1-2-0) [SB1287 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-SB1287-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: sexually explicit materials; government; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SB 1287

 

Introduced by

Senators Hoffman: Wadsack;  Representatives Carter, Chaplik, Heap, Hendrix, Jones, McGarr, Parker B, Parker J

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 38, chapter 3, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 38-451; relating to sexually explicit materials.

 

 

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

Section 1. Title 38, chapter 3, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 38-451, to read:

START_STATUTE38-451. Sexually explicit materials; prohibition; violation; classification; definitions

A. This state, a state agency or a city, town, county or political subdivision of this state shall not expose minors to sexually explicit materials and shall prohibit its contractors from exposing minors to sexually explicit materials.

B. A facility or property owned, leased or managed by a person or entity prescribed by subsection A of this section may not be used for filming or facilitating sexually explicit acts.

C. A person that violates this section is guilty of a class 5 felony.

D. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area or buttocks or the female breast.

2. "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

3. "Sexually explicit materials" includes textual, visual or audio materials or materials accessed via any other medium that depict any of the following:

(a) Sexual conduct.

(b) Sexual excitement.

(c) Ultimate sexual acts.

4. "Ultimate sexual acts" means sexual intercourse, vaginal or anal, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality or sodomy. END_STATUTE