Bill
Number: H.B. 2548
Kavanagh
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: House engrossed bill
Amendment
drafted by: Catcher Baden
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
Expands the offense
of obstructing a highway or public thoroughfare to include a person that, after
receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally interferes with passage on
a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance into a public forum that
results in preventing other persons from gaining access to a governmental
meeting, a governmental hearing or a political campaign event.
Classifies this
offense as a class 1 misdemeanor.
Makes clarifying
changes.
Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Section
13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-2906. Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare;
classification; definition
A. A person commits
obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if the person, alone or with
other persons, does either any of the following:
1. Having no legal
privilege to do so, recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare
by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
2. Intentionally activates
a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason
for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare
but to do both of the following:
(a) Stop the passage of
traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare.
(b) Solicit a driver for a
donation or business.
3. After receiving a verbal warning to desist, intentionally
interferes with passage on a highway or other public thoroughfare or entrance
into a public forum that results in preventing other persons from gaining
access to a governmental meeting, a governmental hearing or a political
campaign event.
B. Obstructing a highway or
other public thoroughfare under
subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor. Obstructing a highway or
other public thoroughfare under subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 of this section
is a class 3 misdemeanor.
C. For the purposes of this section, "public forum"
has the same meaning prescribed in section 15‑1861.END_STATUTE"
Renumber to conform
Page 1, line 30, strike “compensatory damages,”
Line 32, strike "PERSON" insert "student"
Amend
title to conform