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• Feb 25, 2026
  House Second Reading

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• Mar 3, 2026
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• Mar 8, 2026
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• Apr 21, 2026
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• Jun 10, 2026
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  Senate · Feb 22, 2026

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  House · Jun 10, 2026

  21 yes36 no0 other0 absent0 excused3 not voting

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• HOUSE SUMMARY: 03/05/2026 Caucus & COW

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-1003, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to
read:
13-1003. Conspiracy; classification
A. A person commits conspiracy if, with the intent to promote or
aid the commission of an offense, such person agrees with one or more
persons that at least one of them or another person will engage in conduct
constituting the offense and one of the parties commits an overt act in
furtherance of the offense, except that an overt act shall not be required
if the object of the conspiracy was to commit any felony upon ON the
person of another, or to commit an offense under section 13-1508, or
13-1704 OR 13-2903.
B. If a person guilty of conspiracy, as defined in subsection A of
this section, knows or has reason to know that a person with whom such
person conspires to commit an offense has conspired with another person or
persons to commit the same offense, such person is guilty of conspiring to
commit the offense with such other person or persons, whether or not such
person knows their identity.
C. A person who conspires to commit a number of offenses is guilty
of only one conspiracy if the multiple offenses are the object of the same
agreement or relationship and the degree of the conspiracy shall be
determined by the most serious offense conspired to.
D. Conspiracy to commit a class 1 felony is punishable by a
sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of release on any basis
until the service of twenty-five years, otherwise, conspiracy is an
offense of the same class as the most serious offense which is the object
of or result of the conspiracy.
Sec. 2. Section 13-2301, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to
read:
13-2301. Definitions
A. For the purposes of sections 13-2302, 13-2303 and 13-2304:
1. "Collect an extension of credit" means to induce in any way any
person to make repayment of that extension.
2. "Creditor" means any person making an extension of credit or any
person claiming by, under or through any person making an extension of
credit.
3. "Debtor" means any person to whom an extension of credit is made
or any person who guarantees the repayment of an extension of credit, or
in any manner undertakes to indemnify the creditor against loss resulting
from the failure of any person to whom an extension is made to repay the
extension.
4. "Extend credit" means to make or renew any loan or to enter into
any agreement, tacit or express, whereby the repayment or satisfaction of
any debt or claim, whether acknowledged or disputed, valid or invalid, and
however arising, may or shall be deferred.
5. "Extortionate extension of credit" means any extension of credit
with respect to which it is the understanding of the creditor and the
debtor when the extension is made that delay in making repayment or
failure to make repayment could result in the use of violence or other
criminal means to cause harm to the person or the reputation or property
of any person.
6. "Extortionate means" means the use, or an express or implicit
threat of use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to the
person or the reputation or property of any person.
7. "Repayment of any extension of credit" means the repayment,
satisfaction or discharge in whole or in part of any debt or claim,
acknowledged or disputed, valid or invalid, resulting from or in
connection with that extension of credit.
B. For the purposes of section 13-2305, 13-2306 or 13-2307:
1. "Dealer in property" means a person who buys and sells property
as a business.
2. "Stolen property" means property of another as defined in
section 13-1801 that has been the subject of any unlawful taking.
3. "Traffic" means to sell, transfer, distribute, dispense or
otherwise dispose of stolen property to another person, or to buy,
receive, possess or obtain control of stolen property, with the intent to
sell, transfer, distribute, dispense or otherwise dispose of the property
to another person.
C. For the purposes of this chapter:
1. "Animal activity" means a commercial enterprise that uses
animals   for  food,   clothing  or   fiber  production,   agriculture  or
biotechnology.
2. "Animal facility" means a building or premises where a
commercial activity in which the use of animals is essential takes place,
including a zoo, rodeo, circus, amusement park, hunting preserve and horse
and dog event.
3. "Animal or ecological terrorism" means any felony in violation
of section 13-2312, subsection B that involves at least three persons
acting in concert, that involves the intentional or knowing infliction of
property damage in an amount of more than $10,000 to the property that is
used by a person for the operation of a lawfully conducted animal activity
or to a commercial enterprise that is engaged in a lawfully operated
animal facility or research facility and that involves either:
(a) The use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
(b) The intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical
injury on a person engaged in a lawfully conducted animal activity or
participating in a lawfully conducted animal facility or research
facility.
4. "Biological agent" means any microorganism, virus, infectious
substance   or   biological   product  that   may   be  engineered   through
biotechnology or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any
microorganism, virus, infectious substance or biological product and that
is capable of causing any of the following:
(a) Death, disease or physical injury in a human, animal, plant or
other living organism.
(b) The deterioration or contamination of air, food, water,
equipment, supplies or material of any kind.
5. "Combination" means persons who collaborate in carrying on or
furthering the activities or purposes of a criminal syndicate even though
such persons may not know each other's identity, membership in the
combination changes from time to time or one or more members may stand in
a wholesaler-retailer or other arm's length relationship with others as to
activities or dealings between or among themselves in an illicit
operation.
6. "Communication service provider" has the same meaning prescribed
in section 13-3001.
7. "Criminal syndicate" means any combination of persons or
enterprises engaging, or having the purpose of engaging, on a continuing
basis in conduct that violates any one or more provisions of any felony
statute of this state.
8. "Explosive agent" means an explosive as defined in section
13-3101 and flammable fuels or fire accelerants in amounts over fifty
gallons but excludes:
(a) Fireworks as defined in section 36-1601.
(b) Firearms.
(c) A propellant actuated device or propellant actuated industrial
tool.
(d) A device that is commercially manufactured primarily for the
purpose of illumination.
(e) A rocket having a propellant charge of less than four ounces.
9. "Material support or resources" includes money or other
financial securities, financial services, lodging, sustenance, training,
safehouses,    false   documentation  or    identification,   communications
equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel,
transportation, disguises and other physical assets but does not include
medical assistance, legal assistance or religious materials.
10. "Public establishment" means a structure, vehicle or craft that
is owned, leased or operated by any of the following:
(a) This state or a political subdivision as defined in section
38-502.
(b) A public agency as defined in section 38-502.
(c) The federal government.
(d) A health care institution as defined in section 36-401.
(e) A private educational institution.
11. "Research facility" means a laboratory, institution, medical
care facility, government facility, public or private educational
institution or nature preserve at which a scientific test, experiment or
investigation involving the use of animals is lawfully carried out,
conducted or attempted.
12. "Terrorism" means any felony, including any completed or
preparatory offense, that involves the use of a deadly weapon or a weapon
of mass destruction or the intentional or knowing infliction of serious
physical injury with the intent to do any of the following:
(a) Influence the policy or affect the conduct of this state or any
of the political subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities of this
state.
(b) Cause substantial damage to or substantial interruption of
public    communications,   communication    service    providers,   public
transportation, common carriers, public utilities, public establishments
or other public services.
(c) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population.
(d) Further the goals, desires, aims, public pronouncements,
manifestos or political objectives of any terrorist organization.
13. "Terrorist organization" means any organization that is
designated by the United States department of state as a foreign terrorist
organization under section 219 of the immigration and nationality act
(8 United States Code section 1189).
14. "Toxin"    means  the   toxic   material   of   plants,  animals,
microorganisms, viruses, fungi or infectious substances or a recombinant
molecule, whatever its origin or method of reproduction, including:
(a) Any poisonous substance or biological product that may be
engineered through biotechnology and that is produced by a living
organism.
(b) Any poisonous isomer or biological product, homolog or
derivative of such a substance.
15. "Vector" means a living organism or molecule, including a
recombinant molecule or biological product that may be engineered through
biotechnology, that is capable of carrying a biological agent or toxin to
a host.
16. "Weapon of mass destruction" means:
(a) Any device or object that is designed or that the person
intends to use to cause multiple deaths or serious physical injuries
through the use of an explosive agent or the release, dissemination or
impact of a toxin, biological agent or poisonous chemical, or its
precursor, or any vector.
(b) Except as authorized and used in accordance with a license,
registration or exemption by the department of health services pursuant to
section 30-672, any device or object that is designed or that the person
intends to use to release radiation or radioactivity at a level that is
dangerous to human life.
D. For the purposes of sections 13-2312, 13-2313, 13-2314 and
13-2315, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Control", in relation to an enterprise, means the possession of
sufficient means to allow substantial direction over the affairs of an
enterprise and, in relation to property, means to acquire or possess.
2. "Enterprise" means any corporation, partnership, association,
labor union or other legal entity or any group of persons associated in
fact although not a legal entity.
3. "Financial institution" means a banking or securities regulatory
agency of the United States, a business coming within the definition of a
bank, financial agency or financial institution as prescribed by 31 United
States Code section 5312 or 31 Code of Federal Regulations section
1010.100 or a business under the jurisdiction of the securities division
of the corporation commission, the state real estate department or the
department of insurance and financial institutions.
4. "Racketeering" means any act, including any preparatory or
completed offense, that is chargeable or indictable under the laws of the
state or country in which the act occurred and, if the act occurred in a
state or country other than this state, that would be chargeable or
indictable under the laws of this state if the act had occurred in this
state, and that would be punishable by imprisonment for more than one year
under the laws of this state and, if the act occurred in a state or
country other than this state, under the laws of the state or country in
which the act occurred, regardless of whether the act is charged or
indicted, and the act involves either ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
(a) Terrorism, animal terrorism or ecological terrorism that
results or is intended to result in a risk of serious physical injury or
death.
(b) RIOT.
(b) (c) Any of the following acts if committed for financial gain:
(i) Homicide.
(ii) Robbery.
(iii) Kidnapping.
(iv) Forgery.
(v) Theft.
(vi) Bribery.
(vii) Gambling.
(viii) Usury.
(ix) Extortion.
(x) Extortionate extensions of credit.
(xi) Prohibited drugs, marijuana or other prohibited chemicals or
substances.
(xii) Trafficking in explosives, weapons or stolen property.
(xiii) Participating in a criminal syndicate.
(xiv) Obstructing    or   hindering   criminal   investigations   or
prosecutions.
(xv) Asserting false claims, including false claims asserted
through fraud or arson.
(xvi) Intentional or reckless false statements or publications
concerning land for sale or lease or sale of subdivided lands or sale and
mortgaging of unsubdivided lands.
(xvii) Resale of realty with intent to defraud.
(xviii) Intentional or reckless fraud in the purchase or sale of
securities.
(xix) Intentional or reckless sale of unregistered securities or
real property securities.
(xx) A scheme or artifice to defraud.
(xxi) Obscenity.
(xxii) Sexual exploitation of a minor.
(xxiii) Prostitution.
(xxiv) Restraint of trade or commerce in violation of section
34-252.
(xxv) Terrorism.
(xxvi) Money laundering.
(xxvii) Obscene or indecent telephone communications to minors for
commercial purposes.
(xxviii) Counterfeiting marks as proscribed in section 44-1453.
(xxix) Animal terrorism or ecological terrorism.
(xxx) Smuggling of human beings.
(xxxi) Child sex trafficking.
(xxxii) Sex trafficking.
(xxxiii) Trafficking of persons for forced labor or services.
(xxxiv) Manufacturing, selling or distributing misbranded drugs in
violation of section 13-3406, subsection A, paragraph 9.
(xxxv) Holding an unauthorized racing meeting as proscribed in
section 5-107.01.
5. "Records" means any book, paper, writing, computer program,
data, image or information that is collected, recorded, preserved or
maintained in any form of storage medium.
6. "Remedy racketeering" means to enter a civil judgment pursuant
to this chapter or chapter 39 of this title against property or a person
who is subject to liability, including liability for injury to the state
that is caused by racketeering or by actions in concert with racketeering.
E. For the purposes of sections 13-2316, 13-2316.01 and 13-2316.02:
1. "Access" means to instruct, communicate with, store data in,
retrieve data from or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer,
computer system or network.
2. "Access device" means any card, token, code, account number,
electronic serial number, mobile or personal identification number,
password, encryption key, biometric identifier or other means of account
access, including a canceled or revoked access device, that can be used
alone or in conjunction with another access device to obtain money, goods,
services, computer or network access or any other thing of value or that
can be used to initiate a transfer of any thing of value.
3. "Computer" means an electronic device that performs logic,
arithmetic or memory functions by the manipulations of electronic or
magnetic impulses and includes all input, output, processing, storage,
software or communication facilities that are connected or related to such
a device in a system or network.
4. "Computer contaminant" means any set of computer instructions
that is designed to modify, damage, destroy, record or transmit
information within a computer, computer system or network without the
intent or permission of the owner of the information, computer system or
network. Computer contaminant includes a group of computer instructions,
such as viruses or worms, that is self-replicating or self-propagating and
that is designed to contaminate other computer programs or computer data,
to consume computer resources, to modify, destroy, record or transmit data
or in some other fashion to usurp the normal operation of the computer,
computer system or network.
5. "Computer program" means a series of instructions or statements,
in a form acceptable to a computer, that allow the functioning of a
computer system in a manner designed to provide appropriate products from
the computer system.
6. "Computer software" means a set of computer programs, procedures
and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a computer
system.
7. "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or
unconnected computer equipment, devices and software, including storage,
media and peripheral devices.
8. "Critical infrastructure resource" means any computer or
communications system or network that is involved in providing services
necessary to ensure or protect the public health, safety or welfare,
including services that are provided by any of the following:
(a) Medical personnel and institutions.
(b) Emergency services agencies.
(c) Public    and  private   utilities,   including   water,  power,
communications and transportation services.
(d) Fire departments, districts or volunteer organizations.
(e) Law enforcement agencies.
(f) Financial institutions.
(g) Public educational institutions.
(h) Government agencies.
9. "False or fraudulent pretense" means the unauthorized use of an
access device or the use of an access device to exceed authorized access.
10. "Financial instrument" means any check, draft, money order,
certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of exchange, credit card or
marketable security or any other written instrument as defined in section
13-2001 that is transferable for value.
11. "Network" includes a complex of interconnected computer or
communication systems of any type.
12. "Property" means financial instruments, information, including
electronically produced data, computer software and programs in either
machine or human readable form, and anything of value, tangible or
intangible.
13. "Proprietary or confidential computer security information"
means information about a particular computer, computer system or network
that relates to its access devices, security practices, methods and
systems, architecture, communications facilities, encryption methods and
system vulnerabilities and that is not made available to the public by its
owner or operator.
14. "Services" includes computer time, data processing, storage
functions and all types of communication functions.
Sec. 3. Section 13-2903, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to
read:
13-2903. Riot; classification
A. A person commits riot if, with two or more other persons acting
together, such person recklessly uses force or violence or threatens to
use force or violence, if such threat is accompanied by immediate power of
execution, which EITHER disturbs the public peace OR RESULTS IN DAMAGE TO
THE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER PERSON.
B. Riot is a class 5 felony.