Arizona 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2358 Compare Versions

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1	1	REFERENCE TITLE: adequate provocation; unavailability; transgender; gay State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2358 Introduced by Representatives Contreras P: Abeytia, Austin, Crews, De Los Santos, Garcia, Mathis, Sandoval, Stahl Hamilton; Senator Ortiz AN ACT amending title 13, chapter 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-422; amending section 13-1101, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to justification. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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9	9	REFERENCE TITLE: adequate provocation; unavailability; transgender; gay
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68	68	amending title 13, chapter 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 13-422; amending section 13-1101, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to justification.
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78	78	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 13, chapter 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-422, to read: START_STATUTE13-422. Justification; unavailability of gay and transgender panic defense A person is not justified in threatening or using physical force or deadly physical force against another if in doing so the person injures or kills another person based on THE DISCOVERY OF, KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OR POTENTIAL DISCLOSURE OF THE ACTUAl OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR GENDER EXPRESSION OF THE other person, INCLUDING UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE other person MADE AN UNWANTED, NONFORCIBLE ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE person OR IF THE person AND the other person DATED OR WERE ENGAGED IN A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP. END_STATUTE Sec. 2. Section 13-1101, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE13-1101. Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 4. 1. "Adequate provocation": (a) Means conduct or circumstances sufficient to deprive a reasonable person of self-control. (b) Does not include the discovery of, KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OR POTENTIAL DISCLOSURE OF THE ACTUAl OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR GENDER EXPRESSION OF THE victim, INCLUDING UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE victim MADE AN UNWANTED, NONFORCIBLE ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE defendant OR IF THE defendant AND victim DATED OR WERE ENGAGED IN A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP. 2. "gender identity" means the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person regardless of the person's designated sex at birth. 2. 3. "Homicide" means first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide. 3. 4. "Person" means a human being. 1. 5. "Premeditation" means that the defendant acts with either the intention or the knowledge that he will kill another human being, when such intention or knowledge precedes the killing by any length of time to permit reflection. Proof of actual reflection is not required, but an act is not done with premeditation if it is the instant effect of a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. 6. "sexual orientation" means homosexuality, heterosexuality or bisexuality. END_STATUTE
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82	82	Section 1. Title 13, chapter 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-422, to read:
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84	84	START_STATUTE13-422. Justification; unavailability of gay and transgender panic defense
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86	86	A person is not justified in threatening or using physical force or deadly physical force against another if in doing so the person injures or kills another person based on THE DISCOVERY OF, KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OR POTENTIAL DISCLOSURE OF THE ACTUAl OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR GENDER EXPRESSION OF THE other person, INCLUDING UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE other person MADE AN UNWANTED, NONFORCIBLE ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE person OR IF THE person AND the other person DATED OR WERE ENGAGED IN A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
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90	90	Sec. 2. Section 13-1101, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
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100	100	(b) Does not include the discovery of, KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OR POTENTIAL DISCLOSURE OF THE ACTUAl OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR GENDER EXPRESSION OF THE victim, INCLUDING UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE victim MADE AN UNWANTED, NONFORCIBLE ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE defendant OR IF THE defendant AND victim DATED OR WERE ENGAGED IN A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
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102	102	2. "gender identity" means the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person regardless of the person's designated sex at birth.
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108	108	1. 5. "Premeditation" means that the defendant acts with either the intention or the knowledge that he will kill another human being, when such intention or knowledge precedes the killing by any length of time to permit reflection. Proof of actual reflection is not required, but an act is not done with premeditation if it is the instant effect of a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.
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110	110	6. "sexual orientation" means homosexuality, heterosexuality or bisexuality. END_STATUTE