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SB1475 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1475
interscholastic
activities; criminal offenses ineligibility
Purpose
Requires a
school district governing board (governing board) to prohibit a student from
participating in a school-sponsored interscholastic activity or program if the
student has been convicted of, admitted in court, plead no contest or admitted
in a plea agreement to committing outlined criminal offenses. Requires a governing
board to require any student who participates in an interscholastic activity or
program to certify whether the student committed an outlined criminal offense.
Background
A person commits
harassment
if the person knowingly and repeatedly commits an act or acts
that harass another person, or the person knowingly commits one of the
following acts in a manner that harasses: 1) contacts or causes a communication
with another person by verbal, electronic, mechanical, telegraphic, telephonic
or written means; 2) continues to follow another person in or about a public
place after being asked by that person to desist; 3) surveils or causes a
person to surveil another person; 4) makes a false report to a law enforcement,
credit or social service agency against another person; or 5) interferes with
the delivery of any public or regulated utility to another person (
A.R.S.
� 13-2921
).
A person commits
stalking
if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in a course of
conduct that is directed toward another person and if that conduct causes the
victim to: 1) suffer emotional distress or reasonably fear that the victim's
property will be damaged or destroyed or that the victim or specified persons
associated with the victim will be physically injured; or
2) reasonably fear death or the death of specified persons associated with the
victim (
A.R.S.
� 13-2923
).�
A person
commits
commercial sexual exploitation of a minor
by knowingly: 1) using,
employing, persuading, enticing, inducing or coercing a minor to engage in or
assist others to engage in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct to
produce any visual depiction or live act depicting such conduct; 2) using,
employing, persuading, enticing, inducing or coercing a minor to expose the
genitals or anus or the areola or nipple of the female breast for financial or
commercial gain; 3) permitting a minor under the person's custody or control to
engage in or assist others to engage in exploitive exhibition or other sexual
conduct to produce any visual depiction or live act depicting such conduct; 4)
transporting or financing the transportation of any minor through or across Arizona
with the intent that the minor engage in prostitution, exploitive exhibition or
other sexual conduct to produce a visual depiction or live act depicting
such conduct; or 5) using an advertisement for prostitution that contains a
visual depiction of a minor (
A.R.S.
� 13-3552
).�
A person commits
sexual exploitation of a minor
by knowingly: 1) recording, filming,
photographing, developing or duplicating any visual depiction in which a minor
is engaged in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct; 2) distributing,
transporting, exhibiting, receiving, selling, purchasing, electronically
transmitting, possessing or exchanging any visual depiction in which a minor is
engaged in exploitive exhibition or other sexual conduct; 3) possessing,
manufacturing, distributing, advertising, ordering, offering to sell, selling
or purchasing a child sex doll that uses the face, image or likeness of a real
infant or minor who is younger than 12 years old with the intent to replicate
the physical features of that real infant or minor; or 4) observing a nude minor
to engage in sexual conduct for the person's sexual gratification (
A.R.S.
� 13-3553
).
A person commits
luring a minor for sexual exploitation
by offering or soliciting sexual
conduct with another person knowing or having reason to know that the other
person is a minor
(
A.R.S. �13-3554
).
A person commits
aggravated luring a minor for sexual exploitation
if the person:
1) knowing the character and content of the depiction, uses an electronic
communication device to transmit a visual depiction of material that is harmful
to minors to initiate or engage in communication with a recipient who the
person knows, or has reason to know, is a minor; and
2) by means of the communication, offers or solicits sexual conduct with the
minor. The offer or solicitation may occur before, contemporaneously with,
after or as an integrated part of the transmission of the visual depiction (
A.R.S.
� 13-3560
).
Persons who are older
than 18 years old and are within the degrees of consanguinity within which
marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void and who knowingly
intermarry, or commit fornication or adultery with each other are guilty of a
class 4 felony (
A.R.S.
� 13-3608
).
Domestic
violence
means any act that is a dangerous crime against children or a
prescribed offense if: 1) the relationship between the victim and the defendant
is one of marriage or former marriage or of persons sharing residences; 2) the
victim and the defendant have a child in common; 3) the victim or the defendant
is pregnant by the other party; 4) the victim is related to the defendant or
the defendant's spouse by blood or court order; 5) the victim is a child who
resides or has resided in the same household as the defendant and is related by
blood to a former spouse of the defendant or to a person who resides or who has
resided in the same household as the defendant; or 6) the relationship between
the victim and the defendant is currently or was previously a romantic or
sexual relationship (
A.R.S.
� 13-3601
).�
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state
General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1.
Requires
a governing board to prohibit a student from participating in a school
district-sponsored interscholastic activity or program if the student has been
convicted of, admitted in open court, pleaded no contest or admitted in a plea
agreement to committing any of the following criminal offenses in Arizona or a
similar offense in another jurisdiction or a delinquent act that if committed
by an adult would constitute any of the following criminal offenses:
a)
aggravated assault that involves a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument
or that results in serious physical injury;
b)
any offense that involves a sexual offense;
c)
harassment involving sexually explicit communications or conduct;�
d)
stalking;�
e)
commercial sexual exploitation of a minor;
f)
sexual exploitation of a minor;
g)
luring a minor for sexual exploitation;�
h)
domestic violence; or
i)
incest.
2.
Requires a governing board to require any student who participates or
seeks to participate in a school-sponsored interscholastic activity or program
to certify on a form provided by the school district whether the student has
been convicted of, admitted in open court, pleaded no contest or admitted in a
plea agreement to committing any of the outlined criminal offenses in Arizona
or a similar offense in another jurisdiction or a delinquent act that if
committed by an adult would constitute any listed criminal offense.
3.
Stipulates that, on notice that a student is charged with or awaiting
trial on any of the outlined criminal offenses or a delinquent act that if
committed by an adult would constitute any of the outlined criminal offenses, a
governing board must prohibit that student from participating in a
school-sponsored interscholastic activity or program until the charges against
the student are dismissed or the student is found to be not guilty.
4.
Makes technical and conforming changes.
5.
Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 9, 2026
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SB1475 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
interscholastic
activities; criminal offenses; ineligibility
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1475
AN
ACT
amending section 8-207, Arizona Revised
Statutes; amending title 15, chapter 3, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, by
adding section 15-342.06; relating to school district governing boards.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 8-207, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
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8-207.
Order of adjudication; noncriminal; use as evidence
A. Except as provided by section 13-904,
subsection H, section 13-2921.01,
section
15-342.06 or
17-340 or sections 28-3304, 28-3306
and 28-3320, an order of the juvenile court in proceedings under this
chapter shall not be deemed a conviction of crime, impose any civil
disabilities ordinarily resulting from a conviction or operate to disqualify
the juvenile in any civil service application or appointment.
B. The disposition of a juvenile in the juvenile
court may not be used against the juvenile in any case or proceeding other than
a criminal or juvenile case in any court, whether before or after reaching
majority, except as provided by section 13-2921.01,
section
15-342.06 or
17-340 or sections 28-3304, 28-3306
and 28-3320.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Title 15, chapter 3, article 3, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-342.06, to read:
START_STATUTE
15-342.06.
Interscholastic activities and programs; student eligibility;
criminal conduct
A school district governing board shall:
1. Prohibit a student from participating in
an interscholastic activity or program that is sponsored by the school district
if the student has been convicted of, has admitted in open court to, has
pleaded no contest to or has admitted pursuant to a plea agreement to
committing any of the following criminal offenses in this state or a similar
offense in another jurisdiction or a delinquent act that if committed by an
adult would constitute any of the following criminal offenses:
(
a
) Aggravated
assault pursuant to section 13-1204 that involves a deadly weapon or
dangerous instrument or that results in serious physical injury.
(
b
) Any
offense that involves a violation of title 13, chapter 14.
(
c
) Harassment
pursuant to section 13-2921 or 13-2921.01 involving sexually
explicit communications or conduct.
(
d
) Stalking
pursuant to section 13-2923.
(
e
) Commercial
sexual exploitation of a minor pursuant to section 13-3552.
(
f
) Sexual
exploitation of a minor pursuant to section 13-3553.
(
g
) Luring
a minor for sexual exploitation pursuant to section 13-3554 or 13-3560.
(
h
) Domestic
violence as defined in section 13-3601.
(
i
) Incest
pursuant to section 13-3608.
2. On notice that a student is
charged with or awaiting trial on any criminal offense listed in paragraph 1 of
this section or a delinquent act that if committed by an adult would constitute
any criminal offense listed in paragraph 1 of this section, prohibit the
student from participating in an interscholastic activity or program that is
sponsored by the school until the charges against the student are dismissed or
the student is found to be not guilty.
3. Require any student who
participates or seeks to participate in an interscholastic activity or program
that is sponsored by the school to certify on a form provided by the school
district whether the student has been convicted of, has admitted in open court
to, has pleaded no contest to or has admitted pursuant to a plea agreement to
committing any criminal offense listed in paragraph 1 of this section in this
state or a similar offense in another jurisdiction or a delinquent act that if
committed by an adult would constitute any criminal offense listed in paragraph
1 of this section.
END_STATUTE