annual probation review; prehearing; notification

Plain English Breakdown

The official text does not specify an exact effective date beyond the general state rule for bills signed on April 13, 2026.

Annual Probation Review and Prehearing Notification

This law allows courts to hold prehearings before annual probation reviews for young sex offenders and requires notifying specific people about these meetings.

What This Bill Does

• Allows courts to hold a 'prehearing' with notified individuals to discuss details before the main annual probation review hearing.
• Requires that prosecutors, attorneys, victims, victim's attorneys, and probation officers be notified of both the prehearing and the final hearing if they are held.
• At these hearings, courts consider whether to continue, modify, or end probation.
• Courts also decide whether to require, suspend, or end sex offender registration requirements.
• Courts may choose to continue, defer, or stop community notification rules for people on the sex offender registry.

Who It Names or Affects

• Probationers under age 22 who committed an offense requiring sex offender registration before they turned 18 and request a hearing.
• Prosecutors involved in the case.
• Attorneys representing the probationer or victims.
• Victims of the crime and their attorneys, if they have rights to be present under state law.
• Probation officers supervising these individuals.

Terms To Know

Prehearing

A meeting held before the main court hearing where notified people discuss and advise the judge on probation, registration, or notification issues.

Probation review

An annual check-in requested by a young offender to decide if their probation rules should change or end.

Community notification

Rules that allow the public to be informed about people who are required to register as sex offenders in their area.

Limits and Unknowns

• The annual hearing only happens if the probationer asks for it.
• This law applies only to those under age 22 whose offense occurred before they turned 18 and required registration.
• Courts may hold more than one review hearing per year, but this is not guaranteed.

Official Summary Text

HB2046 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR
H.B. 2046

annual probation
review; prehearing; notification

Purpose

Adds prehearings for probation reviews of certain probationers to the
probation hearings for which notification must be provided to specified
individuals.

Background

The court must conduct a probation hearing, if requested by the
probationer, at least once per year if the probationer is under 22 years old
and committed an offense requiring the person to register as a sex offender
when the person was under

18 years old. The
prosecutor, attorney for the probationer, any victim, the victim's attorney and
the probationer's probation officer must be notified of the probation hearing.
After hearing from the individuals notified and present at the probation
hearing, the court must consider whether to: 1) continue, modify or terminate
probation; 2) continue to require, suspend or terminate the probationer's sex
offender registration; and

3) continue, defer or terminate community notification requirements for persons
on the sex offender registry. The court may hold a prehearing involving the
individuals who are to be notified of the probation hearing to discuss and
advise the court on the outlined considerations relating to the probationer's
probation, registration and community notifications (
A.R.S.
� 13-923
).

There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state
General Fund associated with this legislation.

Provisions

1.

Adds
prehearings for probation reviews of persons under 22 years old who committed
an offense requiring the person to register as a sex offender when the person
was under 18 years old to the probation hearings for which notification must be
provided to the:

a)

prosecutor;

b)

probationer's attorney;

c)

probation officer;

d)

any victim; and

e)

victim's attorney.

2.

Makes
technical changes.

3.

Becomes
effective on the general effective date.

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Current Bill Text

Chapter 0036 - 572R - H Ver of HB2046

House Engrossed

annual probation
review; prehearing; notification

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

CHAPTER 36

HOUSE BILL 2046

AN
ACT

amending section 13-923, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to probation.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1. Section 13-923, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
13-923.

Persons convicted of sexual offenses; annual probation review
hearing; report; notification

A. If requested by the probationer, the court shall
conduct a probation hearing at least once a year for a probationer who is under
twenty-two years of age and who was convicted of an offense that occurred
when the person was under eighteen years of age and that requires the
probationer to register pursuant to section 13-3821.

B. This section does not preclude the court from
conducting more than one probation review hearing each year.

C. The probation department that is supervising the
probationer shall prepare a probation report and submit the report to the court

prior to

before
the hearing.

D. The following individuals shall be notified of
the
probation
hearing
and any prehearing
that are held pursuant to this section
:

1. A prosecutor.

2. An attorney for the probationer.

3. Any victim or victim's attorney who has a right
to be present and heard pursuant to the victims' bill of rights, article II,
section 2.1
,

of the
Constitution of
this state
Arizona
,
title
13,
chapter 40
of this title
or court rule.

4. The probation officer supervising the
probationer.

E. At the hearing, after hearing from those present
pursuant to subsection D of this section, the court shall consider the
following:

1. Whether to continue, modify or terminate
probation.

2. Whether to continue to require, to suspend or to
terminate the probationer's registration pursuant to section 13-3821.

3. Whether to continue, defer or terminate community
notification pursuant to section 13-3825.

F. The court may hold a prehearing involving the
persons listed in subsection D of this section to discuss and advise the court
concerning the issues listed in subsection E of this section.
END_STATUTE

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 13, 2026.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 13, 2026.