Arizona 2025 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HCR2053 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 02/21/2025

                      	HCR 2053 
Initials NM/DC 	Page 1 	Caucus & COW 
 
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Fifty-seventh Legislature 
First Regular Session 
House: JUD DP 6-3-0-0  
 
HCR2053: legislative privilege; traffic violations 
Sponsor: Representative Nguyen, LD 1 
Caucus & COW 
Overview 
Excludes traffic violations from legislature immunity in the Arizona Constitution.  
History 
With legislative immunity, legislators are privileged from arrest and questioning in all cases 
— except treason, felony and breach of peace — while going to, returning from and during 
attendance at their Houses' session. Members are privileged from arrest and being subject to 
any civil process, during, and 15 days prior to, every legislative session (Arizona Constitution, 
Art. IV Pt. 2 § 6). 
Provisions 
1. Exempts traffic violations from legislative immunity. 
2. Instructs the Secretary of State to submit this proposition to voters at the next general 
election. 
3. Makes technical changes. 
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes)     ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes)      ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note