Arizona HB 2136: industrial development bonds; preapproval; threshold

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HB2136 - 572R - H Ver 

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 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HOUSE BILL 2136

AN 
ACT

amending section 13-2301, Arizona Revised 
Statutes; amending title 13, chapter 23, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding 
sections 13-2308.04 and 13-2308.05; amending section 13-2906, Arizona 
Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order. 

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

Section 1. Section 13-2301, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2301. Definitions

A. For 
the purposes of sections 13-2302, 13-2303 and 13-2304:

1. "Collect an extension of credit" means 
to induce in any way any person to make repayment of that extension.

2. "Creditor" 
means any person making an extension of credit or any person claiming by, under 
or through any person making an extension of credit.

3. "Debtor" 
means any person to whom an extension of credit is made or any person who 
guarantees the repayment of an extension of credit, or in any manner undertakes 
to indemnify the creditor against loss resulting from the failure of any person 
to whom an extension is made to repay the extension.

4. "Extend 
credit" means to make or renew any loan or to enter into any agreement, 
tacit or express, whereby the repayment or satisfaction of any debt or claim, 
whether acknowledged or disputed, valid or invalid, and however arising, may or 
shall be deferred.

5. "Extortionate extension of credit" 
means any extension of credit with respect to which it is the understanding of 
the creditor and the debtor when the extension is made that delay in making 
repayment or failure to make repayment could result in the use of violence or 
other criminal means to cause harm to the person or the reputation or property 
of any person.

6. "Extortionate 
means" means the use, or an express or implicit threat of use, of violence 
or other criminal means to cause harm to the person or the reputation or 
property of any person.

7. "Repayment of any extension of credit" 
means the repayment, satisfaction or discharge in whole or in part of any debt 
or claim, acknowledged or disputed, valid or invalid, resulting from or in 
connection with that extension of credit.

B. For the purposes of section 13-2305, 13-2306 
or 13-2307:

1. "Dealer in property" means a person who 
buys and sells property as a business.

2. "Stolen property" means property of 
another as defined in section 13-1801 that has been the subject of any 
unlawful taking.

3. "Traffic" means to sell, transfer, 
distribute, dispense or otherwise dispose of stolen property to another person, 
or to buy, receive, possess or obtain control of stolen property, with the 
intent to sell, transfer, distribute, dispense or otherwise dispose of the 
property to another person.

C. For the purposes of 
this chapter:

1. "Animal 
activity" means a commercial enterprise that uses animals for food, 
clothing or fiber production, agriculture or biotechnology.

2. "Animal 
facility" means a building or premises where a commercial activity in 
which the use of animals is essential takes place, including a zoo, rodeo, 
circus, amusement park, hunting preserve and horse and dog event.

3. "Animal or ecological terrorism" means 
any felony in violation of section 13-2312, subsection B that involves at 
least three persons acting in concert, that involves the intentional or knowing 
infliction of property damage in an amount of more than $10,000 to the property 
that is used by a person for the operation of a lawfully conducted animal 
activity or to a commercial enterprise that is engaged in a lawfully operated 
animal facility or research facility and that involves either:

(a) The 
use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.

(b) The 
intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury on a person 
engaged in a lawfully conducted animal activity or participating in a lawfully 
conducted animal facility or research facility.

4. "Biological 
agent" means any microorganism, virus, infectious substance or biological 
product that may be engineered through biotechnology or any naturally occurring 
or bioengineered component of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance or 
biological product and that is capable of causing any of the following:

(a) Death, 
disease or physical injury in a human, animal, plant or other living organism.

(b) The 
deterioration or contamination of air, food, water, equipment, supplies or 
material of any kind.

5. "Combination" 
means persons who collaborate in carrying on or furthering the activities or 
purposes of a criminal syndicate even though such persons may not know each 
other's identity, membership in the combination changes from time to time or 
one or more members may stand in a wholesaler-retailer or other arm's 
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