HB 2155 is a bill that proposes amendments to section 13-2402 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, which pertains to the obstruction of public administration. The bill seeks to clarify the language of the current law by replacing gender-specific terms with gender-neutral ones and correcting a spelling error. Specifically, it changes "his" to "the public servant's" and "the peace officer's" to make the language inclusive, and it corrects the spelling of "hinderance" to "hindrance." Additionally, the bill restructures the existing provisions by indicating that a person commits the offense of obstructing governmental operations if they knowingly obstruct, impair, or hinder either the performance of a governmental function by a public servant or the enforcement of penal law by a peace officer, both acting under their official authority. The bill also removes the conjunction "or" from the list of actions constituting the offense, thereby streamlining the language.

Statutes affected:
Introduced Version: 13-2402