Bill Text: AZ SB1099 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sexually explicit materials; government; prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Senate GOV Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (4-3-0-0) [SB1099 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-SB1099-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: sexually explicit materials; government; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

SB 1099

 

Introduced by

Senator Hoffman:  Representatives Chaplik, Hendrix, Keshel, Kolodin, Marshall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 38, chapter 3, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 38-452; relating to sexually explicit materials.

 

 

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

Section 1. Title 38, chapter 3, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 38-452, to read:

START_STATUTE38-452. Sexually explicit materials; prohibition; violation; classification; definitions

A. This state or a state agency, city, town, county or political subdivision of this state may not expose minors to sexually explicit materials and shall prohibit its contractors from exposing minors to sexually explicit materials.

B. A facility or property owned, leased or managed by a person or entity prescribed by subsection A of this section may not be used for filming or facilitating sexually explicit acts.

C. A person that violates this section is guilty of a class 5 felony.

D. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area or buttocks or the female breast.

2. "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

3. "Sexually explicit materials" includes textual, visual or audio materials or materials accessed via any other medium that depict any of the following:

(a) Sexual conduct.

(b) Sexual excitement.

(c) Ultimate sexual acts.

4. "Ultimate sexual acts" means sexual intercourse, vaginal or anal, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality or sodomy. END_STATUTE