Arizona 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2231 Compare Versions

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1		-	~~House Engrossed~~ advisory committee; subcommittee; exemption State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 ~~HOUSE BILL~~ 2231 AN ACT amending section 38-431.08, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to public meetings and proceedings. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
	1	+	REFERENCE TITLE: advisory committee; subcommittee; exemption State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2231 Introduced by Representative Hendrix AN ACT amending section 38-431.08, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to public meetings and proceedings. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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55	64		AN ACT
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59	68		amending section 38-431.08, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to public meetings and proceedings.
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69	78		Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 38-431.08, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE38-431.08. Exceptions; limitation A. This article does not apply to: 1. Any judicial proceeding of any court or any political caucus of the legislature. 2. Any conference committee of the legislature, except that all such meetings shall be open to the public. 3. The commissions on appellate and trial court appointments and the commission on judicial qualifications. 4. Good cause exception and central registry exception determinations and hearings conducted by the board of fingerprinting pursuant to sections 41-619.55 and 41-619.57. 5. The exchange of communications among a quorum of a three-member advisory committee or subcommittee that involves a discussion or deliberation CONCERNING a matter before the advisory committee or subcommittee. B. A hearing held within a prison facility by the board of executive clemency is subject to this article, except that the director of the state department of corrections may: 1. Prohibit, on written findings that are made public within five days of after so finding, any person from attending a hearing whose attendance would constitute a serious threat to the life or physical safety of any person or to the safe, secure and orderly operation of the prison. 2. Require a person who attends a hearing to sign an attendance log. If the person is over sixteen years of age, the person shall produce photographic identification that verifies the person's signature. 3. Prevent and prohibit any articles from being taken into a hearing except recording devices and, if the person who attends a hearing is a member of the media, cameras. 4. Require that a person who attends a hearing submit to a reasonable search on entering the facility. C. The exclusive remedies available to any person who is denied attendance at or removed from a hearing by the director of the state department of corrections in violation of this section shall be those remedies available in section 38-431.07, as against the director only. D. Either house of the legislature may adopt a rule or procedure pursuant to article IV, part 2, section 8, Constitution of Arizona, to provide an exemption to the notice and agenda requirements of this article or to allow standing or conference committees to meet through technological devices rather than only in person. END_STATUTE
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71	80		Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
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73	82		Section 1. Section 38-431.08, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
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75	84		START_STATUTE38-431.08. Exceptions; limitation
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83	92		3. The commissions on appellate and trial court appointments and the commission on judicial qualifications.
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85	94		4. Good cause exception and central registry exception determinations and hearings conducted by the board of fingerprinting pursuant to sections 41-619.55 and 41-619.57.
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87	96		5. The exchange of communications among a quorum of a three-member advisory committee or subcommittee that involves a discussion or deliberation CONCERNING a matter before the advisory committee or subcommittee.
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89	98		B. A hearing held within a prison facility by the board of executive clemency is subject to this article, except that the director of the state department of corrections may:
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91	100		1. Prohibit, on written findings that are made public within five days of after so finding, any person from attending a hearing whose attendance would constitute a serious threat to the life or physical safety of any person or to the safe, secure and orderly operation of the prison.
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93	102		2. Require a person who attends a hearing to sign an attendance log. If the person is over sixteen years of age, the person shall produce photographic identification that verifies the person's signature.
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95	104		3. Prevent and prohibit any articles from being taken into a hearing except recording devices and, if the person who attends a hearing is a member of the media, cameras.
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97	106		4. Require that a person who attends a hearing submit to a reasonable search on entering the facility.
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99	108		C. The exclusive remedies available to any person who is denied attendance at or removed from a hearing by the director of the state department of corrections in violation of this section shall be those remedies available in section 38-431.07, as against the director only.
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101	110		D. Either house of the legislature may adopt a rule or procedure pursuant to article IV, part 2, section 8, Constitution of Arizona, to provide an exemption to the notice and agenda requirements of this article or to allow standing or conference committees to meet through technological devices rather than only in person. END_STATUTE