HB 2970

House Engrossed
fraudulent schemes;
  artifices; jurisdiction
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HOUSE BILL 2970
AN
ACT
AMENDING SECTION 13-2310, ARIZONA REVISED
STATUTES; RELATING TO FRAUDULENT
SCHEMES AND ARTIFICES.
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Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-2310, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-2310. Fraudulent schemes and artifices; classification; definition
A. Any A person
who, pursuant to a scheme or artifice to defraud, knowingly obtains any benefit
by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, promises or
material omissions is guilty of a class 2 felony.
B. Reliance on the part of any person shall not be a
necessary element of the offense described in subsection A of this section.
C. A person who is convicted of a violation of this
section that involved a benefit with a value of one hundred
thousand dollars $100,000 or more or the
manufacture, sale or marketing of opioids is not eligible for suspension of
sentence, probation, pardon or release from confinement on any basis except
pursuant to section 31-233, subsection A or B until the sentence imposed
by the court has been served, the person is eligible for release pursuant to
section 41-1604.07 or the sentence is commuted.
D. This state shall apply the aggregation prescribed
by section 13-1801, subsection B to violations of this section in
determining the applicable punishment.
E. In a prosecution for a violation
of this section, this state is only required to establish
that one of the acts that constitutes a violation of this section occurred in
this state or within a single city, town, county or local jurisdiction of this
state. this state is not required to establish that all of the acts
that constitute the violation of this section occurred in this state or within
a single city, town, county or local jurisdiction of this state. It
is not a defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that not all
of the acts that constitute the violation of this section occurred in this
state or within a single city, town, county or local jurisdiction of this
state.
E. F. For
the purposes of this section, "scheme or artifice to defraud"
includes a scheme or artifice to deprive a person of the intangible right of
honest services. END_STATUTE