Bill Text: AZ SB1575 | 2022 | Fifty-fifth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislative subpoenas; disobedience

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-23 - Senate majority caucus: Do pass [SB1575 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2022-SB1575-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: legislative subpoenas; disobedience

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

SB 1575

 

Introduced by

Senator Townsend

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41-1153, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the legislature.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1. Section 41-1153, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1153. Disobedience of subpoena; violation; classification

A. If a witness neglects or refuses to obey a legislative subpoena, or, appearing, neglects or refuses to testify, the senate or the house may, by resolution entered in the journal, commit him for contempt witness is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

B. A witness neglecting or refusing to attend in obedience to a subpoena may be arrested detained by the sergeant-at-arms and brought before the senate or house upon of representatives on authority of a copy of the resolution signed by the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, and countersigned by the secretary or chief clerk. END_STATUTE