drive by shooting; immediate area

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on how driving privileges are suspended after conviction.

Drive by Shooting Law Changes

HB2045 amends Arizona's drive-by shooting law to include discharging a weapon from an area near a vehicle used for transportation or carrying the weapon.

What This Bill Does

• Expands the definition of 'discharging a weapon from a motor vehicle' to also cover discharging a weapon in the immediate area of a vehicle that was used to transport the person to where they discharged the weapon.
• Includes discharging a weapon near a vehicle if the vehicle carried the weapon to the place it was fired.
• Updates definitions related to drive-by shooting offenses.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who commit drive-by shootings or similar crimes involving weapons near vehicles
• Law enforcement agencies that enforce these laws

Terms To Know

Drive by Shooting

A crime where someone fires a weapon from inside or near a moving vehicle.

Forfeiture

The process of taking away property used in illegal activities, like vehicles involved in crimes.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify the exact distance considered 'immediate area' near a vehicle.
• It is unclear if this bill will become law since it failed in the House on February 10, 2026.

Official Summary Text

HB2045 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

House:
JUD DP 7-1-0-1

HB
2045
: drive by shooting; immediate area

Sponsor:
Representative Bliss, LD 1

House
Engrossed

Overview

Establishes
that
discharging a weapon from a motor vehicle
includes discharging a
weapon from the immediate area of the vehicle.

History

Statute establishes that a person commits
drive by
shooting
if the person intentionally discharges a weapon from a motor
vehicle at a person, another vehicle or an occupied structure. Drive by
shooting is classified as a class 2 felony (
A.R.S. �
13-1209
).

Furthermore, a vehicle used in a drive by shooting is subject
to seizure and forfeiture. The license of any person convicted of drive by
shooting is subject to seizure and destruction; and driving privileges are to be
suspended for a period of one to five years (
A.R.S. �
13-1209
).

Provisions

1.

Specifies
that
discharging a weapon from a motor vehicle
includes discharging a
weapon in the immediate area of a vehicle that was:

a.

used to
transport the person to the place the weapon was discharged; or

b.

used to
transport the weapon that was discharged. (Sec. 1)

2.

Makes
technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2045 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

drive by shooting;
immediate area

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2045

AN
ACT

amending section 13-1209, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to drive by shootings.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 13-1209, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
13-1209.

Drive by shooting; forfeiture; driver license revocation;
classification; definitions

A. A person commits drive by shooting by intentionally
discharging a weapon from a motor vehicle at a person, another occupied motor
vehicle or an occupied structure.

B.
Motor vehicles that are used in
violation of this section are
A motor vehicle from which
a person commits a drive by shooting is
subject to seizure for
forfeiture in the manner provided for in chapter 39 of this title.

C. Notwithstanding title 28, chapter 8, the judge
shall order the surrender to the judge of any driver license of the convicted
person and, on surrender of the license, shall invalidate or destroy the
license and forward the abstract of conviction to the department of
transportation with an order of the court revoking the driving privilege of the
person for a period of at least one year but not more than five
years. On receipt of the abstract of conviction and order, the
department of transportation shall revoke the driving privilege of the person
for the period of time ordered by the judge.

D. Drive by shooting is a class 2 felony.

E.
As used in

for
the purposes of
this section:

1.
"Discharging
a weapon from a motor vehicle
" includes discharging
a weapon from the immediate area of a motor vehicle that was used to transport
the person to the scene of the discharge or the weapon that was discharged.

1.

2.
"Motor
vehicle" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-101.

2.

3.
"Occupied
structure" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3101.
END_STATUTE