REFERENCE TITLE: duty to retreat; repeal State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2529 Introduced by Representatives Austin: Abeytia, Cavero, Contreras L, Contreras P, Crews, Garcia, Gutierrez, Liguori, Luna-Njera, Mathis, Sandoval, Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Tsosie, Villegas AN ACT amending section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to justification. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
REFERENCE TITLE: duty to retreat; repeal
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HB 2529
Introduced by Representatives Austin: Abeytia, Cavero, Contreras L, Contreras P, Crews, Garcia, Gutierrez, Liguori, Luna-Njera, Mathis, Sandoval, Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Tsosie, Villegas
REFERENCE TITLE: duty to retreat; repeal
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
HB 2529
Introduced by
Representatives Austin: Abeytia, Cavero, Contreras L, Contreras P, Crews, Garcia, Gutierrez, Liguori, Luna-Njera, Mathis, Sandoval, Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Tsosie, Villegas
AN ACT
amending section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to justification.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE13-405. Justification; use of deadly physical force A. A person is justified in threatening or using deadly physical force against another: 1. If such the person would be justified in threatening or using physical force against the other under section 13-404, and 2. When and to the degree a reasonable person would believe that deadly physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly physical force. B. A person has no duty to retreat before threatening or using deadly physical force pursuant to this section if the person is in a place where the person may legally be and is not engaged in an unlawful act. END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-405. Justification; use of deadly physical force
A. A person is justified in threatening or using deadly physical force against another:
1. If such the person would be justified in threatening or using physical force against the other under section 13-404, and
2. When and to the degree a reasonable person would believe that deadly physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly physical force.
B. A person has no duty to retreat before threatening or using deadly physical force pursuant to this section if the person is in a place where the person may legally be and is not engaged in an unlawful act. END_STATUTE