public offices; holidays; technical correction

Plain English Breakdown

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SB1091: Technical Correction to Holiday Office Rules

This bill fixes wording errors in the state law that lists when public offices and courts must close on holidays.

What This Bill Does

• Amends Section 1-302 of the Arizona Revised Statutes regarding holiday closures.
• Changes the phrase 'upon its request' to 'on its request'.
• Updates phrasing from 'instructions to a jury deliberating on its verdict' to 'the jury's verdict'.
• Keeps existing rules that courts stay closed on holidays except for specific tasks.

Who It Names or Affects

• Public offices in the State of Arizona.
• Courts and judges handling legal business.
• Juries deliberating or returning verdicts during holiday periods.
• Magistrates working on criminal cases.

Limits and Unknowns

• The official text does not state a specific effective date for when this change begins.

Official Summary Text

SB1091 - public offices; holidays; technical correction

Current Bill Text

SB1091 - 572R - I Ver

PREFILED��� JAN 05 2026

REFERENCE TITLE:
public offices; holidays; technical correction

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1091

Introduced by

Senator
Finchem

AN
ACT

amending section 1-302, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to holidays.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1. Section 1-302, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
1-302.

Closing of offices and courts; transaction of certain judicial
business

A. Public offices shall not be open, and no court of
justice shall be open or any judicial business transacted on a legal holiday,
except for the following purposes:

1. To give
upon

on

its request, instructions to a jury deliberating on
its

the jury's
verdict.

2. To receive a verdict or discharge a jury.

3. For the exercise of the powers of a magistrate in
a criminal action or in a proceeding of a criminal nature.

B. Injunctions, attachments, process for claim and
delivery and writs of prohibition may be issued and served on any day.
END_STATUTE